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Sendak Exhibit at San Francisco's Contemporary Jewish Museum:
This fall, things get wild at the Contemporary Jewish Museum (www.thecjm.org) as it presents There's a Mystery There: Sendak on Sendak, a major retrospective of over 100 works by Maurice Sendak, the famed author and illustrator of over 100 picture books who changed the course of children's literature forever with his 1963 classic Where the Wild Things Are. On view September 8, 2009 ­ to January 19, 2010, this is the largest and most ambitious exhibition of original watercolors and drawings from more than 40 of Sendak's books, including his most beloved titles. It also features rare sketches, never-before-seen working materials, and exclusive interview footage. The Contemporary Jewish Museum is located at: 736 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA.

Organized by the world's only repository of Sendak's work, The Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia, the exhibition is a fascinating and revealing journey into the artist's life and work for both children and adults. Families gain a deeper understanding of the characters and stories they love while adult audiences get an unprecedented opportunity to explore the more mature and sophisticated ideas behind many of Sendak's beloved tales, discovering how they were shaped by intensely personal stories and influences, especially the people, places, and events of Sendak's childhood.

Sendak, now 81 years old, was born in Brooklyn in 1928, the youngest of three children. His parents, poor Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, suffered greatly from the loss of many family members in Poland during the Holocaust. The sadness and complexities of the Holocaust, the rich memories of his parent's lives in Europe, and his own childhood adventures and anxieties are currents that run through all of Sendak's work.

New Website with Coretta Scott King Award Information:
www.teachingbooks.net/crc.cgi?id=1
The Coretta Scott King Book Award Curriculum Resource Center contains more than eight hours of originally produced audio with award-winning authors and illustrators, presented in accessible, two- to three-minute clips. Searches can be executed by author, illustrator, title, grade level, and curriculum area, as well as by the year or specific Coretta Scott King Book Award citation.

In addition to free, online primary source materials (audio recordings and book readings), the collection features hundreds of lesson plans and original movies filmed in the studios of some of the award-winning authors and illustrators.

Among the more than 250 recordings are Dr. Maya Angelou and George Ford-two of the first recipients of the award in the early 1970s-as well as Dr. Toni Morrison, Walter Dean Myers, Kadir Nelson, Faith Ringgold, and Jacqueline Woodson, some of the most famous and successful recipients.

This Curriculum Resource Center was created by TeachingBooks.net with the support of the Coretta Scott King Book Award 40th Anniversary Public Awareness Campaign Committee. Special thanks to the committee and the co-chairs Andrea Davis Pinkney and Deborah Taylor. Thanks to Satia Orange and Isaac Tufvesson at the American Library Association's Office for Literacy and Outreach Services.

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