Though these books are available separately in slightly larger paperback versions, to me the sheer lack of size in this collection is what makes them especially endearing. I've selected the haunting month for obvious reasons. The illustrations are imaginative (of course) and the rhyming is a gas to read out loud. The book is really about the months of the year with chicken soup being the thing that connects them all together. My boy has been obsessing over the wee little collection ever since the first viewing, and in particular, Chicken Soup with Rice.
Within the special, the entire text of each Nutshell Library book is played out: Chicken Soup with Rice, Pierre, One was Johnny and Alligators All Around.
Really Rosie was a TV special and musical based on The Nutshell Library and The Sign on Rosie's Door by Maurice Sendak with music by Carole King. That said, a few weeks ago, I found an LP copy of Really Rosie at a thrift shop, and then a few weeks later, I picked up the VHS of the movie. I think I have enough in stock here on the 'ole bookshelf, but if I get in a jam, I can always hit the library. He died due to complications from a recent stroke on at the age of 83.So, my challenge for the rest of the month is to spotlight only books that are seasonal, Halloween or spooky-themed. In addition, he has designed sets and costumes for performances of operas by Mozart, Prokofiev, and other classical composers. He was the lyricist, as well as the set and costume designer, for the original production of an opera based on Where The Wild Things Are in 1980. He was also the set designer and lyricist for a subsequent off-Broadway musical of the same title. He received numerous awards including the Caldecott medal for Where The Wild Things Are in 1964, the Hans Christian Andersen International Medal in 1970, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, and the National Medal of Arts in 1996.Ĭharacters from two of his books were the basis of an animated television special, Really Rosie, which first aired in 1975. His works include Chicken Soup with Rice In the Night Kitchen Outside Over There Higglety Pigglety Pop The Sign on Rosie's Door We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy Brundibar Bumble Ardy and My Brother's Book. He wrote his first children's book Kenny's Window in 1956 and went on to become a prolific author-illustrator. In 1950, he illustrated his first children's book The Wonderful Farm by Marcel Aymé. Schwartz while attending night school at the Art Students League. He later worked as a window-display director for F.A.O. His first professional illustrations were for a physics textbook, Atomics for the Millions, published in 1947. While in high school, he worked part time as an illustrator for All-American Comics adapting the Mutt and Jeff newspaper comic strip to a comic book format. Maurice Sendak was born on Jin Brooklyn, New York.
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