It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything. - Maurice Sendak

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It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.

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About Maurice Sendak

Maurice Bernard Sendak (10 June 1928 – 8 May 2012) was an American writer and illustrator of children's literature.

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