Weinberg says Sendak and his partner Eugene Glynn, a psychiatrist, were like "surrogate parents." Glynn "was my mother's best friend," he says. They first met Sendak when they were kids, 11 and 10 years old respectively. Sendak had no heirs when he died in 2012, but Caponera and Weinberg were like family to him. 'Oh, Mommy, he looks like the Moishe, the big, wild thing.' And you just want to crack them." A whistling night owl "Unfortunately, I look like Max and the Wild Things, as children tell you in their brazen way. "The characters of my earlier books are really only sort of cockamamie self-portraits," Sendak told Terry Gross, host of WHYY's Fresh Air in 2003. And Maurice was the child of Jewish-Polish Americans," Weinberg says. He has a kind of.an ethnic look, Jewish, almost European look to it. "Maurice really had created a kind of child that isn't.the prettiest little boy. "He" also didn't look like most of the other boys in children's books in the 1950s, says curator Jonathan Weinberg. "Well, he's Maurice," says Lynn Caponera, executive director of The Maurice Sendak Foundation. ![]() While their names and adventures might be different, the boys in Chicken Soup With Rice, Where The Wild Things Are, One Was Johnny - Mino, Max, Pierre, Johnny - and other Sendak stories look very similar. Sendak fans will immediately recognize Mino. ![]() Look no further than 5-year-old Maurice Sendak (circa 1933) to see the model for Max, Pierre, Johnny and now Mino the Magician in Ten Little Rabbits.
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