Maurice Sendak, King of All Wild Things

[Raoul Duke]

Celebrate the release of Sendak's classic book as a feature film with Rolling Stone's 1976 profile of the revered children's book authorOverture: Little Brother, Little SisterThis is the way the fairy tale begins: ''Brother took his little sister by the hand and said, 'Since our mother died we have not had one happy hour. Stepmother beats us every day and when we want to come to her she kicks us away with her foot. Come, we will go out into the wide world together.' All day they walked over meadows, fields and stony paths and when it rained sister said, 'God and our hearts are weeping together.' In the evening they came into...

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