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Where the Wild Things Are, the Glossary

Where the Wild Things Are is a 1963 children's picture book written and illustrated by American writer and illustrator, Maurice Sendak, originally published in hardcover by Harper & Row.^[1]

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1963 children's books
Books by Maurice Sendak
Children's books about monsters
Picture books by Maurice Sendak

ABC News Radio

ABC News Radio is the news radio service of ABC Audio, a division of ABC News in the United States.

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Abdication

Abdication is the act of formally relinquishing monarchical authority.

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Alessia Cara

Alessia Caracciolo (born July 11, 1996), known professionally as Alessia Cara, is a Canadian singer and songwriter.

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Ira J. Stadlen (January 16, 1924 – April 18, 2010), known professionally as Allen Swift, was an American actor, writer and magician, best known as a voiceover artist who voiced cartoon characters Simon Bar Sinister and Riff-Raff on the ''Underdog'' cartoon show.

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Alt-J

Alt-J (stylised as alt-J, real name Δ) are an English indie rock band formed in 2007 in Leeds.

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American Library Association

The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally.

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ARIA Charts

The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association.

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Association for Library Service to Children

The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) is a division of the American Library Association.

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Australian Recording Industry Association

The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) is a trade association representing the Australian recording industry which was established in the 1970s by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers (AARM) which was formed in 1956.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.

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BBC Proms

The BBC Proms is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in central London.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Breezeblocks (song)

"Breezeblocks" is a song by British indie rock band alt-J from their debut studio album An Awesome Wave (2012).

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Brussels

Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium.

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Caldecott Medal

The Randolph Caldecott Medal, frequently shortened to just the Caldecott, annually recognizes the preceding year's "most distinguished American picture book for children".

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Carter Burwell

Carter Benedict Burwell (born November 18, 1954) is an American film composer.

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Cartoon Brew

Cartoon Brew is an animation news website created by Amid Amidi and animation historian Jerry Beck that was launched on 15 March 2004.

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Catherine Keener

Catherine Ann Keener (born March 26, 1959) is an American actress.

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Catherine O'Hara

Catherine Anne O'Hara (born March 4, 1954) is a Canadian and American actress.

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Children's literature

Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children.

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Chris Cooper

Christopher Walton Cooper (born July 9, 1951) is an American actor.

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Colonialism

Colonialism is the pursuing, establishing and maintaining of control and exploitation of people and of resources by a foreign group.

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Computer-generated imagery

Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is a specific-technology or application of computer graphics for creating or improving images in art, printed media, simulators, videos and video games.

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Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American digital-only entertainment magazine based in New York City, published by Dotdash Meredith, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books, and popular culture.

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Ezra Sims

Ezra Sims (January 16, 1928 in Birmingham, Alabama — January 30, 2015 in Boston, Massachusetts) was one of the pioneers in the field of microtonal composition.

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Forest Whitaker

Forest Steven Whitaker (born July 15, 1961) is an American actor, producer and director.

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Francis Spufford

Francis Spufford FRSL (born 1964) is an English author and teacher of writing whose career has seen him shift gradually from non-fiction to fiction.

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Freud's psychoanalytic theories

Sigmund Freud (6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) is considered to be the founder of the psychodynamic approach to psychology, which looks to unconscious drives to explain human behavior.

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Gene Deitch

Eugene Merril Deitch (August 8, 1924 – April 16, 2020) was an American illustrator, animator, comics artist, and film director who was based in Prague from the 1960s until his death in 2020.

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German-occupied Europe

German-occupied Europe (or Nazi-occupied Europe) refers to the sovereign countries of Europe which were wholly or partly militarily occupied and civil-occupied, including puppet governments, by the military forces and the government of Nazi Germany at various times between 1939 and 1945, during World War II, administered by the Nazi regime under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler.

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Glen Keane

Glen Keane (born April 13, 1954) is an American animator, director, author and illustrator.

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Glyndebourne

Glyndebourne is an English country house, the site of an opera house that, since 1934, has been the venue for the annual Glyndebourne Festival Opera.

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Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.

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Harper (publisher)

Harper is an American publishing house, the flagship imprint of global publisher, HarperCollins, based in New York City.

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Illustrator

An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or elucidating concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea.

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In the Night Kitchen

In the Night Kitchen is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak, first published in hardcover in 1970 by Harper and Row. Where the Wild Things Are and in the Night Kitchen are American picture books, books by Maurice Sendak, children's books adapted into films, Harper & Row books and picture books by Maurice Sendak.

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James Gandolfini

James Joseph Gandolfini Jr. (September 18, 1961June 19, 2013) was an American actor.

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John Lasseter

John Alan Lasseter (born January 12, 1957) is an American film director, producer, and animator.

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Karen O

Karen Lee Orzolek (born November 22, 1978) is a South Korean-born American singer, musician, and songwriter.

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Kenny's Window

Kenny's Window is the first children's picturebook that was written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Where the Wild Things Are and Kenny's Window are American picture books, books by Maurice Sendak and picture books by Maurice Sendak.

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Lauren Ambrose

Lauren Ambrose (born February 20, 1978) is an American actress.

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List of children's books made into feature films

This is a list of works of children's literature that have been made into feature films.

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List of children's classic books

This is a list of classic children's books published no later than 2008 and still available in the English language.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Manohla Dargis

Manohla June Dargis is an American film critic.

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Maurice Sendak

Maurice Bernard Sendak (June 10, 1928 – May 8, 2012) was an American author and illustrator of children's books.

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May I Bring a Friend?

May I Bring a Friend? is a 1964 book by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers. Where the Wild Things Are and May I Bring a Friend? are American picture books and Caldecott Medal–winning works.

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Musique concrète

Musique concrète: " problem for any translator of an academic work in French is that the language is relatively abstract and theoretical compared to English; one might even say that the mode of thinking itself tends to be more schematic, with a readiness to see material for study in terms of highly abstract dualisms and correlations, which on occasion does not sit easily with the perhaps more pragmatic English language.

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National Education Association

The National Education Association (NEA) is the largest labor union in the United States.

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New York City Opera

The New York City Opera (NYCO) is an American opera company located in Manhattan in New York City.

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New York Public Library

The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City.

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Now on PBS

Now on PBS, shown onscreen as NOW, is a Public Broadcasting Service newsmagazine which aired between 2002 and 2010, focusing on social and political issues.

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Oliver Knussen

Stuart Oliver Knussen (12 June 1952 – 8 July 2018) was a British composer of contemporary classical music and conductor.

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Outside Over There

Outside Over There is a picture book for children written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Where the Wild Things Are and Outside Over There are American picture books, books by Maurice Sendak and picture books by Maurice Sendak.

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Paul Dano

Paul Franklin Dano (born June 19, 1984) is an American actor.

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Peter Schickele

Peter Schickele (July 17, 1935 – January 16, 2024) was an American composer, musical educator and parodist, best known for comedy albums featuring his music, which he presented as being composed by the fictional P.D.Q. Bach.

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Piano

The piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, through engagement of an action whose hammers strike strings.

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Picture book

A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children.

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Prague

Prague (Praha) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia.

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Royal Albert Hall

The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, England.

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Saint Paul, Minnesota

Saint Paul (often abbreviated St. Paul) is the capital of the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county seat of Ramsey County.

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School Library Journal

School Library Journal (SLJ) is an American monthly magazine containing reviews and other articles for school librarians, media specialists, and public librarians who work with young people.

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Seattle Weekly

The Seattle Weekly is an alternative biweekly distributed newspaper in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Spike Jonze

Adam Spiegel (born October 22, 1969), known professionally as Spike Jonze, is an American filmmaker, actor and photographer.

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Stephen Colbert

Stephen Tyrone Colbert (born May 13, 1964) is an American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe, also known locally as the Globe, is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The Girl Who Slept Too Little

"The Girl Who Slept Too Little" is the second episode of the seventeenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.

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The Holocaust

The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.

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The Horn Book Magazine

The Horn Book Magazine, founded in Boston in 1924, is the oldest bimonthly magazine dedicated to reviewing children's literature.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child

The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child is an annual journal, published by Taylor & Francis, which contains scholarly articles on topics related to child psychiatry and psychoanalysis.

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The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.

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The Simpsons season 17

The seventeenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons began airing on Sunday, September 11, 2005, and finished airing on Sunday, May 21, 2006.

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The Snowy Day

The Snowy Day is a 1962 American children's picture book by American author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats. Where the Wild Things Are and The Snowy Day are American picture books and Caldecott Medal–winning works.

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The Wild Things

The Wild Things is a 2009 full-length novel written by Dave Eggers and published by McSweeney's.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Trilogy

A trilogy is a set of three distinct works that are connected and can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works.

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Walt Disney Animation Studios

Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS), sometimes shortened to Disney Animation, is an American animation studio that creates animated features and short films for The Walt Disney Company.

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Weston Woods Studios

Weston Woods Studios (or simply Weston Woods) is a production company that makes audio and short films based on well-known books for children.

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Where the Wild Things Are (film)

Where the Wild Things Are is a 2009 fantasy adventure drama film directed by Spike Jonze.

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Where the Wild Things Are (opera)

Where the Wild Things Are, Op. 20, is a fantasy opera in one act, nine scenes, by Oliver Knussen to a libretto by Maurice Sendak, based on Sendak's own 1963 children's book of the same title.

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Wilbur Theatre

The Wilbur Theatre is a historic performing arts theater at 244–250 Tremont Street in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Wild Things (song)

"Wild Things" is a song recorded by Canadian singer-songwriter Alessia Cara for her debut studio album, Know-It-All (2015).

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William Ackerman

William Ackerman (born November 16, 1949) is an American guitarist and record producer who founded Windham Hill Records.

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Windham Hill Records

Windham Hill Records was an independent record label that specialized in instrumental acoustic music.

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Wolf

The wolf (Canis lupus;: wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America.

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Yiddish

Yiddish (ייִדיש, יידיש or אידיש, yidish or idish,,; ייִדיש-טײַטש, historically also Yidish-Taytsh) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews.

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1963 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1963.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_the_Wild_Things_Are

Also known as WTWTA.

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Where the Wild Things Are, the Glossary

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See also

1963 children's books

Books by Maurice Sendak

Children's books about monsters

Picture books by Maurice Sendak

References