Children’s Programs Special Thanks Ridgefield Library Presents
Monday, October 7, 11 AM–11:45 AM The Illustrative World of The Illustrative World of Let the Wild Rumpus Begin Concert Maurice Sendak Children with a caregiver are invited to celebrate is made possible thanks to the Maurice Sendak: Let the Wild author and illustrator Maurice Sendak by making Friends of the Ridgefield some musical rumpus! No registration required. L i b r a r y Rumpus Begin!
Tuesday, October 8, 11:15 AM - Registration is requested, but not required. Wild Things Storytime Join other families with children ages 3–5 (and siblings!) for a special Maurice Sendak Storytime. Celebrate Wild Things with stories, songs, a craft, and a special visit from a Wild Thing! Special thanks also to: The Maurice Sendak Foundation Photo credit: Barbara Alper & University of Connecticut, September/October 2019 Maurice Sendak Collection
An All-Ages Celebration of Maurice Sendak’s Artistic and Literary Legacy
Copyright 1963 by Maurice Sendak, copyright renewed 1991 by Maurice Sendak. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers “Oh, please don't go—we'll eat you up—we love For more information or to register for you so!” ―Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) is considered to programs, visit ridgefieldlibrary.org Are be the most important book artist of the 20th or call 203-438-2282. century. He not only wrote and illustrated award-winning children’s books that brought “You cannot write for children. They're much too fantasy to life in the reader’s imagination, he complicated. You can only write books that are of also produced operas and ballets for both stage and television. The Maurice Sendak Collection at interest to them.”—Maurice Sendak the University of Connecticut in Storrs houses 7,692 pieces of his artwork. The Maurice Sendak “Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move Foundation in Ridgefield, CT maintains his Ridgefield Library, 472 Main Street, Ridgefield, CT 06877, back and forth very easily in a way we no longer personal art collection, selected works by Sendak himself, and his home of forty years in 203-438-2282, www.ridgefieldlibrary.org remember how to do.” —Maurice Sendak Ridgefield, CT. Lecture Lecture Book Discussion Sunday, September 22 @ 2 PM - Register Sunday, October 6 @ 2 PM - Register Wednesday, October 9 @ 6:30 PM - Register ARTalk: The Many Worlds of Maurice Sendak: Maurice Sendak's Truth in Fiction with Jen Mathy Sendak Books Merit Grown-Up Conversation An Analysis of Imagery and Creative Process Sendak used an unlikely form, the picture book, to with Kristina Lareau with Clara Nguyen explore his own childhood crises, to enhance Clara Nguyen, project character, and to achieve “truth” in his made-up This casual presentation and book discussion for archivist for the Maurice stories. “I refuse to lie to children,” he said. How teens and adults, led by Kristina Lareau, Head of Children’s Services at the Ridgefield Library, will Sendak Collection at the did Sendak use personal trauma to inform his work give an overview of Sendak’s famous trilogy, University of Connecticut, —without letting the personal become the story? Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, will give an illustrated Jennifer Mathy is an and Outside Over There. ARTalk using materials independent consultant from the Collection, most providing social media Lareau will also examine the structure of these significantly preliminary management, public relations, picture books as art, explore the historical sketches, dummy books, and final drawings, to advertising, and strategic influences of Sendak’s work, and discuss why discuss Maurice Sendak’s artistic treatment of his brand development for a Sendak’s 1963 Where the Wild Things Are remains seminal in the world of children’s characters and the worlds in which he imagined variety of clients. She holds an literature. After the presentation, attendees will them, and consequently, the impact he sent MFA in Writing and Literature be invited to examine these works (among reverberating through the world of children’s from Bennington College and gave portions of this presentation as her graduate thesis. others) with facilitated discussion. literature. Kristina Lareau holds an MA Film Screening and Discussion in Children’s Literature and an MS in Library Science, Field Trip to UConn Thursday, October 10 @ 6 PM - Register both from Simmons Tell Them Anything You Want, A Portrait of Maurice University in Boston. Sendak with Lynn Caponera, Jonathan Weinberg, Friday, September 27 @ 8:30 AM–4:30 PM and Arthur Yorinks $20 - Register at ridgefieldlibrary.org
Private tour of the Maurice Sendak Collection at The screening of the the University of Connecticut documentary Tell Them Film Screening—For All Ages with Clara Nguyen, project archivist Anything You Want, (41 min, The fee for the trip is $20. 2009) directed by Lance Bangs Saturday, October 5 @ 3 pm
and Spike Jonze, will be Where the Wild Things Are Join us for a bus trip to the Maurice Sendak Leir Children’s Program Room Collection at the University of Connecticut in followed by a talk-back Storrs. See original drawings, illustrations, and discussion featuring: Lynn 2009 fantasy drama film, lay-outs by Sendak. Archivist Clara Nguyen will Caponera, President, Maurice Sendak Foundation; rated PG, 1hr. 44 mins, show these treasures first-hand. A chartered bus Dr. Jonathan Weinberg, Curator and Director of directed by Spike Jonze. will leave from the Library at 8:30 AM and return Research, Maurice Sendak Foundation; andArthur Based on Where the Wild around 4:30 PM. Yorinks, theatrical and literary co-collaborator with Things Are by Maurice Maurice Sendak. Moderated by Jennifer Mathy. Sendak. Don’t miss this Please bring your own bag lunch or buy lunch on This program is also part of RIFF (RIFFct.org), special screening for all the UConn campus. Ridgefield Independent Film Festival, which takes ages! No registration. place in Ridgefield from October10 –October 14.