Written by Ruth Krauss. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. Reprint, first published in 1948. Michael di Capua Books - Harper Collins Publishers.
Max's dog is not happy to find himself competing with a teddy bear for his buddy's attention, so he snatches the bear and the chase is on. Bears everywhere...bears staring, bears protesting, bears being millionares, bears collecting taxi fares.
Playwright Tony Kushner writes:
"[Krauss] was able to give voice to a child's outsized ardor without sounding treacly... She was a nonsense artist, and like other great practitioners of that indispensable art, she knew how to use nonsense as a means of giddy release and also as resistance training for the logic muscle: One's sense of the world is strengthened after successfully surviving assault by nonsense effectively deployed."
"Sendak responded to Krauss... The best books of their collaboration are like extended jazz duets between two brilliant and inspired artists, each tickling, challenging, and encouraging the other to higher and higher flights of apparently spontaneous invention."
Krauss-Sendak collaborations:
A Hole Is to Dig: A First Book of First Definitions (1952)
A Very Special House (1953)
I'll Be You and You Be Me (1954)
Charlotte and the White Horse (1955)
I Want to Paint my Bathroom Blue (1956)
The Birthday Party (1957)
Somebody Else's Nut Tree and Other Tales for Children (1958)
Open House for Butterflies (1960).
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