{"title":"Maurice Sendak","description":"\u003cp\u003eMaurice Sendak (1928-2012) was an American illustrator and writer born in Brooklyn, New York. He is best known for \u003cem\u003eWhere the Wild Things Are\u003c\/em\u003e (1963), which won the Caldecott Medal and became one of the best-loved children's books ever written. His pictures are full of mischief and energy, and he took children's feelings seriously at a time when many picture books did not. His joyful \u003cem\u003eHurray for Books!\u003c\/em\u003e poster was made for Book Week. Browse more \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/posters-and-prints-for-book-lovers\"\u003eposters for book lovers\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"hurray-for-books-poster-by-maurice-sendak","title":"Hurray For Books Poster by Maurice Sendak","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis charming poster was created by \u003cem\u003eWhere The Wild Things Are\u003c\/em\u003e writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak for Book Week in the USA in 1960. It's an ideal gift for anyone who loves reading or book collecting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"artposterarchive","offers":[{"title":"A3 (11.7 x 16.5 ins)","offer_id":55478700048770,"sku":"APA-BOOKS-SENDAK","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2 (16.5 x 23.4 ins)","offer_id":55478700081538,"sku":"APA-BOOKS-SENDAK","price":38.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"18 x 24 ins (45 x 60 cm)","offer_id":55482603110786,"sku":"APA-BOOKS-SENDAK","price":38.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1 (23.4 x 33.1 ins)","offer_id":55478700114306,"sku":"APA-BOOKS-SENDAK","price":56.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"24 x 36 ins (60 x 90 cm)","offer_id":55482682409346,"sku":"APA-BOOKS-SENDAK","price":56.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/5260\/4323\/products\/hooray-for-books-poster.jpg?v=1753392146"},{"product_id":"the-reading-room-gallery-wall-set-of-3-book-and-library-posters","title":"The Reading Room - Gallery Wall Set of 3 Book and Library Posters","description":"\u003cp\u003eThree mid-century American posters celebrating books and reading, sold together as a gallery wall set of three same-size prints: 'National Library Week' (1961), Bruno Munari's 'Swing Into Books' (Book Week, 1964) and Maurice Sendak's 'Hurray for Books' (Book Week, 1960).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBetween the late 1950s and the mid 1960s, American libraries and publishers ran an unusually confident campaign for reading. National Library Week was launched in 1958 by the American Library Association and the National Book Committee, and each year's poster was commissioned from a working graphic designer; the 1961 edition, 'Wake Up and Read', gives the slogan to a reader with an arrow running straight from the open book to the heart. Children's Book Week, older still, was by then the Children's Book Council's flagship event, and its posters went to the illustrators of the moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBruno Munari's 1964 poster is the most graphically inventive of the three. Munari, whose 'Design as Art' appeared in 1966, draws a flamingo in a single flat magenta and hangs a child reading from a swing between its legs. Maurice Sendak's 1960 poster predates 'Where the Wild Things Are' by three years and already has his line: a clown in a checked coat plays the tuba on a tightrope while books fly overhead. The National Library Week poster provides the typographic backbone. Hung as a row, the three read as one campaign, which in spirit they were.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"artposterarchive","offers":[{"title":"A3 (11.7 x 16.5 ins)","offer_id":56891893088642,"sku":null,"price":64.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2 (16.5 x 23.4 ins)","offer_id":56891893121410,"sku":null,"price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"18 x 24 ins (45 x 60 cm)","offer_id":56891893154178,"sku":null,"price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1 (23.4 x 33.1 ins)","offer_id":56891893186946,"sku":null,"price":145.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"24 x 36 ins (60 x 90 cm)","offer_id":56891893219714,"sku":null,"price":145.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/5260\/4323\/files\/reading_room_v2_nice_v2.png?v=1788626382"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/5260\/4323\/collections\/hooray-for-books-poster.jpg?v=1794578865","url":"https:\/\/artposterarchive.com\/collections\/maurice-sendak.oembed","provider":"artposterarchive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}