“Spike and Maurice were very close,” Sorensen said. Jonze would later direct a documentary about Sendak. One of Sendak’s closest collaborators was film director Spike Jonze, who adapted “Where the Wild Things Are” into a feature-length film in 2009. “They made a giant balloon, and Maurice Sendak went down to the Macy’s shop and worked with the designers, artisans and technicians. “Back in 1998 Bell Atlantic was using “Where the Wild Things Are” in an advertising campaign,” Sorensen said. 16, 2022, at the Ballard Institute at UConn in Storrs. He was also very fond of pop-up books and any kind of two-dimensional art that had a little more three dimensionality to it, a little interactivity.” Sorensen said that fascination goes back to Sendak’s childhood.Ĭonnecticut Public A puppet and drawing of an act-curtain for a production of "The Nutcracker" are part of the exhibit "Swing Into Action: Maurice Sendak and the World of Puppetry" now open through Dec. “Things like 19th-century mechanical toys and moving artwork. “Maurice Sendak was not a puppeteer per se, but he was a huge proponent of movement,” said Matthew Sorensen, co-director of the Ballard Institute. Many of these objects have movement or a musical component to them. In his personal life, Sendak was fascinated from an early age with whimsical objects like puppets and toys, some of which are now on display in the exhibition “Swing into Action: Maurice Sendak and the World of Puppetry” at the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut in Storrs.
Whether it was falling into a giant vat of morning cake batter in the 1970 children’s book “In the Night Kitchen,” or being whisked away to the island Wild Things in “Where the Wild Things Are,” the late Maurice Sendak had a knack for creating fantastical worlds in his books.
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