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Maurice Sendak and fairytales With Maurice Sendak’s death, the news has been full of Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen, so you may have missed the many folktales and nursery rhymes Sendak illustrated. Here are a few: One of my personal favorites is Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer. In this [...]

“Fairytales are more than true, not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” ~ G.K. Chesterton

Lise Lunge-Larsen — Troll expert, Dragonslayer