Maurice Sendak

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Where the Wild Things Are (1963)

April 9th, 1963

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Max, a wild and naughty boy, is sent to bed without his supper by his exhausted mother.

In his room, he imagines sailing far away to a land of Wild Things.

Instead of eating him...the Wild Things make Max their king...

Where the Wild Things Are (1963)
Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them... Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.'

Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1964) From his 1953 Nobel Peace Prize speech