Katharine Capshaw

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Preliminary drawing of title page for ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ (New York: Harper & Row, 1963), 26:7, The Maurice Sendak Collection. Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Library. © The Maurice Sendak Foundation.

From ‘Wild Horses’ to ‘Wild Things,’ a window into Maurice Sendak’s creative process

Katharine Capshaw, University of Connecticut and Cora Lynn Deibler, University of Connecticut

The book took eight years from conception to publication. In the earliest dummy, the monsters that millions have grown to love actually started out as horses.

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