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My Brother's Book

by Maurice Sendak

Hardcover, 31 pages, Harpercollins Childrens Books, List Price: $18.95 |

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Published posthumously, Maurice Sendak's My Brother's Book combines poetry and art in an elegy to his brother.

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4 weeks on NPR Hardcover Fiction Bestseller List

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Sendak's 'Brother's Book': An Elegy, A Farewell

Maurice Sendak died last May but left behind a final book: a reflection on loss and love written in memory of his brother Jack. Sendak's longtime friend Tony Kushner describes the book's origins and Sendak's literary heroes.

Sendak's 'Brother's Book': An Elegy, A Farewell

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