![]() ![]() Slightly OT but regarding Sendak: If you have not seen Sendak’s illustrations for The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm (Powell’s), you’re in for a real treat. Suggestions about what this is supposed to mean (and other _WTWTA_ trivia) welcome in comments. But it reminds me that when I was reading _Where the Wild Things Are_ to my son two nights ago, I spotted that the moon in Max’s bedroom is three quarters full in the early illustrations, changes to a full moon when he begins his travels, and remains full when he returns to his bedroom, and (presumably) normality, linear time, and all that good stuff. ![]() Maybe this is common knowledge to lots of folks I did know the story about the horses. The Wild Things (except “Goat Boy”, of course) were named after (and are presumably caricatures of) Maurice’s aunts and uncles: Aaron, Bernard, Emil, Moishe and Tzippy. Sendak said he switched when he discovered that he could not draw horses. The original concept for the book featured horses instead of monsters. "The more we see kids engaging with electronics, the more we see them falling in love with books, the real thing.“Ari”:, over at _Edge of the American West_, comes across a site “saying”: that the Wild Things were Jewish. "The death of the books is greatly exaggerated," she said, loosely quoting Mark Twain. What does the future hold? More books, Morgan said. The shop employs 18 people and is open seven days a week. "A pig in a blanket," Morgan said with a chuckle.Īlthough the menagerie isn't for sale, Wild Rumpus has a pet-store license so Minneapolis officials can inspect and ensure the safety and well-being of the animals. But Norman and the cats had words about the litter box and Norman went to live out his life at the home of a woman who owned a quilt shop. At one time, Norman, the potbelly pig lived at the store, too. Today, the store has cats, a chicken, birds, rats, ferrets, chinchillas and lots of fish (in the bathroom). Morgan figured that if she was going to work 80-hour weeks, she wanted animals with her. She heard all the horror stories about starting a small business: You'll work 80-hour weeks, you'll never get rich, the location is terrible. We wanted to make it comfortable for the littlest through the biggest" and to have events for all ages. Those were "really nothing that any sophisticated teen would want to walk through," Morgan said. Most, she said, were decorated in primary colors and had, perhaps, a train set running through the store. She and her husband had researched children's bookstores in the United States and in England. When Odegard closed, it was either work for another bookseller or start an independent shop. Morgan had worked for Odegard Books at a time when corporative bookstores were flourishing and moving into the Twin Cities market. Morgan and her then-husband Tom Braun (now ex-husband) started it in 1992. ![]() 43rd St., is, of course, named for Maurice Sendak's classic "Where the Wild Things Are." (Taken from when young Max cries out: "Let the wild rumpus start!") "It's just outstanding, way beyond our wildest dreams." "We're shocked," co-owner Collette Morgan said. It's the first time the award has gone to a children's bookstore. The trade publication on Monday named the Linden Hills shop its 2017 Bookstore of the Year. Now it's a favorite of Publishers Weekly, too. Wild Rumpus Books, where stories about dragons and superheroes reside with a menagerie of live animals, has been a favorite in south Minneapolis for the past 25 years. ![]()
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