![]() ![]() “Things like 19th-century mechanical toys and moving artwork. ![]() “Maurice Sendak was not a puppeteer per se, but he was a huge proponent of movement,” said Matthew Sorensen, co-director of the Ballard Institute. Many of these objects have movement or a musical component to them. In his personal life, Sendak was fascinated from an early age with whimsical objects like puppets and toys, some of which are now on display in the exhibition “Swing into Action: Maurice Sendak and the World of Puppetry” at the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. Whether it was falling into a giant vat of morning cake batter in the 1970 children’s book “In the Night Kitchen,” or being whisked away to the island Wild Things in “Where the Wild Things Are,” the late Maurice Sendak had a knack for creating fantastical worlds in his books. ![]()
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