where the wild things are

Artwork: Illustration by Maurice Sendak for Where the Wild Things Are

Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are is one of my all-time favourite books. So this story recounted by Sendak about one of his readers made me laugh:

"Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters...I sent him a card and I drew a picture...I wrote, 'Dear Jim: I loved your card.' Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, 'Jim loved your card so much he ate it.' That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it."

(source: @_nitch)