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There’s a picture of Blume with Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, and another of her flanked by Theodor Seuss Geisel and Maurice Sendak. “I wanted to do what they did—write rhyming picture books,” explains Blume. Her early attempts, never published, are in a box in her New York City apartment, with a note to her children: “If you publish these after my death, I will come back and haunt you.

EW got to spend a day hanging out at Judy Blume’s house. Jealous?

Incredibly sad news this morning — beloved children’s author and illustrator Maurice Sendak died today at the age of 83. He suffered complications after a recent stroke.

We’ll always remember Sendak for Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, and his amazing, hilarious appearance on The Colbert Report this past January.

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