“Ope, there’s a book on the floor, better go pick that up… ‘How Little Lori Visited Times Square’… Haven’t heard of this one before… 1963?... Illustrated by Maurice Sendak! Why haven’t I heard of this before? I’ll just take a quick read here… Haha, oh, I see… That’s a funny concept… cuz he’s… yeah, okay... Oh right, Idylewylde Airport, because it’s 1963… Haha, turtles… Note to self, if your publisher needs more pages, draw a conversation with a turtle… Oh that’s nice of the turtle… yeah, that’s a cute bo… WAIT WHAT?!... That’s how it ends!?... hahahahahaha… that’s so dark!… I freaking love this book…” - Josh’s thought process while reading How Little Lori Visited Times Square.
— JoshAmos Vogel was born and educated in Vienna and came to America during the War. He founded Cinema 16, which was at one time the world’s largest film society, sat on international film juries, and has written and lectured on films.
Maurice Sendak’s children’s books have sold over 30 million copies and have been translated into more than 40 languages. He received the 1964 Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are and is the creator of such classics as In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There, Higglety Pigglety Pop!, and Nutshell Library. In 1970 he received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Illustration, in 1983 he received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award from the American Library Association, and in 1996 he received a National Medal of Arts in recognition of his contribution to the arts in America. In 2003, Sendak received the first Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, an annual international prize for children’s literature established by the Swedish government.