Chasing him is a horned, bipedal monster with a forked devil’s tail.
One of the images shows a young boy playing what appears to be a bagpipe while riding on a horse that is galloping over fire. The manuscript even came with illustrations which Sendak originally drew in 1990 to accompany a London Symphony Orchestra performance of Leoš Janáček’s “Rikadla,” which sets to music surrealist and absurd Czech nursery rhymes, according to PW. Sendak wrote the book with Arthur Yorinks, a longtime collaborator with whom he also penned “The Miami Giant” and “Mommy?” as the Guardian reported. Michael di Capua Books/HarperCollins plans to publish the book in 2018, according to PW. To think something as good as this has been lying around there gathering dust.” “What a miracle to find this buried treasure in the archives. “I read it in disbelief,” di Capua told PW. Stunned by her discovery, Caponera scanned the manuscript and emailed it to Sendak’s longtime editor and publisher Michael di Capua. Sendak fans can rejoice, then, because it turns out he had one more book, just waiting to be discovered.Īccording to Publishers Weekly, which broke the story, Lynn Caponera, president of the Maurice Sendak Foundation, was cleaning out the late author’s files in Connecticut last year and trying to “to see what could be discarded” when she found a typewritten manuscript with the title “Presto and Zesto in Limboland.” When the author and illustrator died in 2012, though, most thought the world had seen the last of his inimitable storytelling. Maurice Sendak tantalized the imaginations of decades of curious children with dozens of books, including his classic illustrated book “Where the Wild Things Are,” first published in 1963.
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