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Maurice Sendak's classic book "Where the Wild Things Are" was supposed to be titled "Where the Wild Horses Are" but he realized he couldn't draw horses so he changed it to "things" instead
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Where the Wild Things Are" was originally going to be "Where the Wild Horses Are" until Maurice Sendak started working on it and discovered he couldn't draw horses
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"Where the Wild Things Are" was originally titled "Land of the Wild Horses" until the author Maurice Sendak realized that he couldn't draw horses and changed the name.
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Maurice Sendak based the monsters in "Where the Wild Things Are" on his Eastern European immigrant relatives, who scared him with their unkempt hair and bad teeth.
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Maurice Sendak’s classic "Where The Wild Things Are" was originally titled "Where The Wild Horses Are" but Maurice realized he was unable to draw horses.
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Maurice Sendak (author of "Where the wild things are") once sent a letter with a sketch in it to a child who had written to him. Afterwards, he got a letter from the child's mother, saying her son had loved the letter so much he ate it.
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In 1960 a young Maurice Sendak illustrated a version of the Velveteen Rabbit that was not widely published (link includes some of the illustrations)
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Maurice Sendak was a window dresser for F.A.O. Schwarz
