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These interviews, while highlighting Sendak's influential work as a children's picture book author and illustrator, also reveal him as an astute critic of the picture book tradition and emphasize his wide-ranging accomplishments in many other media and art forms.--Jan Susina Children's Literature Association Quarterly

Sendak's theory, made possible by its positioning in Kunze's volume, may not exactly encourage adult readers to literally bite into books themselves. It does enable, however, a kinesthetically meditative and childishly hands-on approach to reading graphic texts that may help us remember what it means to read with teeth.--Kevin Cooley The Lion and the Unicorn These interviews, while highlighting Sendak's influential work as a children's picture book author and illustrator, also reveal him as an astute critic of the picture book tradition and emphasize his wide-ranging accomplishments in many other media and art forms.--Jan Susina Children's Literature Association Quarterly

These interviews, while highlighting Sendak's influential work as a children's picture book author and illustrator, also reveal him as an astute critic of the picture book tradition and emphasize his wide-ranging accomplishments in many other media and art forms.--Jan Susina Children's Literature Association Quarterly Sendak's theory, made possible by its positioning in Kunze's volume, may not exactly encourage adult readers to literally bite into books themselves. It does enable, however, a kinesthetically meditative and childishly hands-on approach to reading graphic texts that may help us remember what it means to read with teeth.--Kevin Cooley The Lion and the Unicorn

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Peter C. Kunze, Austin, Texas, holds a PhD in English from Florida State University and a PhD in media studies from the University of Texas at Austin. His research on children's culture has appeared in Black Camera, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, and The Lion and the Unicorn.

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