<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/30c73e35-2401-432e-a59d-9609d848cafb/CD107310-77A6-4FB4-A2C2-E2AEC49E0633/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/20/maurice-sendak-wild-things-hell" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/20/maurice-sendak-wild-things-hell" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/20/maurice-sendak-wild-things-hell">Children's author gives short shrift to concerns that Where the Wild Things Are is too frightening for children</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/20/maurice-sendak-wild-things-hell"><DIV id="header"><DIV id="zones-nav"><DIV id="nav-bar"> <DIV id="crumb-nav"> <UL> <LI id="crumb1"><A name="&lid={crumbNavigation}{Culture}&lpos={crumbNavigation}{1}" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture" class="first-second">Culture</A></LI> <LI id="crumb2"><A name="&lid={crumbNavigation}{Books}&lpos={crumbNavigation}{2}" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books" class="first-second">Books</A></LI> <LI id="crumb3"><A name="&lid={crumbNavigation}{Maurice Sendak}&lpos={crumbNavigation}{3}" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/maurice-sendak" class="first-end">Maurice Sendak</A></LI> </UL> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV id="box"> <DIV id="article-header"> <DIV id="main-article-info"> <H1>Maurice Sendak tells parents worried by Wild Things to 'go to hell'</H1> <P class="stand-first-alone" id="stand-first"></p> </DIV> <UL id="content-actions"> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> <DIV id="comment-info-related" class="pluck-init-block"> <A class="comment-count-info comment-icon" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/20/maurice-sendak-wild-things-hell?commentpage=1">Comments (<SPAN class="comment-count">116</SPAN>)</A> </DIV> </LI> <LI class="third-party-tool "> <A href="http://uk.buzz.yahoo.com/buzz?publisherurn=the_guardian665&targetUrl=http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/20/maurice-sendak-wild-things-hell&summary=%3Cp%3EChildren%27s+author+gives+short+shrift+to+concerns+that+Where+the+Wild+Things+Are+is+too+frightening+for+children%3C%2Fp%3E&headline= Maurice Sendak tells parents worried by Wild Things to 'go to hell' | Books | guardian.co.uk" id="buzzlink">Buzz up!</A> </LI> <LI class="third-party-tool"> <A href="http://digg.com/submit?url=http:%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Fbooks%2F2009%2Foct%2F20%2Fmaurice-sendak-wild-things-hell&title=Maurice+Sendak+tells+parents+worried+by+Wild+Things+to+%27go+to+hell%27" id="digglink">Digg it</A> </LI> </UL> </DIV> <DIV id="content"> <UL class="article-attributes"> <LI class="byline"> <A name="&lid={contentTypeByline}{Alison Flood}&lpos={contentTypeByline}{1}" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/alisonflood">Alison Flood</A> </LI> <LI class="publication"> <A name="&lid={contentTypeByline}{guardian.co.uk}&lpos={contentTypeByline}{2}" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/">guardian.co.uk</A>, Tuesday 20 October 2009 12.00 BST </LI> <LI class="history"><A href="#history-byline" id="historylink-byline" class="rollover historylink">Article history</A></LI></UL> <DIV id="article-wrapper"> <DIV class="image"> <IMG height="276" width="460" alt="Maurice Sendak" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Books/Pix/pictures/2009/10/20/1256036694898/Maurice-Sendak-001.jpg" /> <P class="caption">Maurice Sendak pictured at the film premiere of Where the Wild Things Are in New York. Photograph: Stuart Ramson/AP</p> </DIV> <P>Parents who think the new film of <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/maurice-sendak">Maurice Sendak</A>'s picture book <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/movie/113146/where.the.wild.things.are">Where the Wild Things Are</A> is too frightening for <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/children">children</A> can "go to hell", the author has said.</P></DIV></DIV></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CD107310-77A6-4FB4-A2C2-E2AEC49E0633/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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