“You must tell the truth about a subject to a child as well as you are able without any mitigating of that truth. You must allow that children are small, courageous people who deal every day with a multitude of problems, just as adults do, and that they are unprepared for most things. What they yearn for most is a bit of truth somewhere.” – Maurice Sendak
preliminary drawing of Max from Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak circa 1963 :: scanned from The Art of Maurice Sendak :: Abrams Books :: 2003