![]() ![]() The following is a transcript of the questions Sendak was asked and his replies. Sendak was in residence at the Institute and generously offered to come in and speak to the class about his work with Jarrell. ![]() But Sendak also illustrated three of Randall Jarrell’s children’s books (“The Bat-Poet,” “The Animal Family,” and “Fly by Night”) and provided a picture to accompany Jarrell’s poem “Children Selecting Books in a Library” in the memorial volume “Randall Jarrell, 1914–1965.” He and Jarrell were also friends.ĭuring the summer of 1978, I offered in San Diego a seminar on Jarrell’s fantasies at the Children’s Literature Institute sponsored by Point Loma College and San Diego State University. Sendak is an author and illustrator well known for his own work: “The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm,” “The Sign on Rosie’s Door,” “In the Night Kitchen,” “Where the Wild Things Are,” and other books. ![]() The latter brought him in touch with Maurice Sendak. In addition, he was the author of a funny novel about college life (“Pictures From an Institution”) and four children’s books. But Jarrell was also an insightful critic (praising the prose of Anton Chekhov and Christina Stead, for example, or measuring the excellence of fellow poets like Robert Frost and Wallace Stevens). R andall Jarrell (1914–1965) is best known as an American poet, the author of several volumes of poetry, and a winner of a National Book Award for Poetry (1961) students often encounter his short lyric “The Death of the Ball-Turret Gunner” in their anthologies. ![]()
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