ISBN: 9781782952220    Publisher: RED FOX BOOKS Year of publishing: 2015     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 80        

A daring imagination has woven a simple rhyme into a brilliantly original tale about Jennie the Sealyham terrier who seeks Experience and becomes the star of the World Mother Goose Theatre. 'Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books the words the rhythm and the design are all wonderful.' S Magazine Sunday Express 'If there is more to life than having everything there is also more to life than having nothing Jennie's farewell letter to her old master is written from Castle Yonder. In synopsis this sounds both more and less ambiguous than it is - you can't compress the reverberations into a review and certainly not the ominous illustrations it may by pass some adults because Sendak speaks directly to the elastic imagination of children.' Kirkus reviews
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Maurice Sendak was born in Brooklyn, New York. He began by illustrating other authors' books for children, but the first book that he both wrote and illustrated was Kenny's Window, published in 1956. In his lifetime, he illustrated over 80 books, and received many awards, including the 1964 Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are. In 1970 he was the first American to win the Hans Christian Andersen Illustrator's Medal. He passed away in May 2012.
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