Google Doodle – Maurice Sendak's 85th Birthday

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Google has celebrated the late author with a Google Doodle of his best-known characters.

The doodle begins with a 360-degree tour of Where the Wild Things Are, but also highlights his other masterpieces, like In the Night Kitchen, a book that was surrounded by controversy because its young protagonist appeared fully naked. Sendak had strong opinions about the differences—or lack thereof—between children and adults. "I don’t believe in children," he famously said. "I don’t believe there’s a demarcation of ‘you mustn’t tell them this, you mustn’t tell them that.’ You tell them anything you want."