Today, a friend of mine and I went to the 50th Anniversary Show for the Hans Christian Andersen Award, an award for exceptional story writing and artwork in children's literature. Once every two years the International Board on Books for Young People will award one artist and one writer a Hans Christian Andersen Award for their work. At the last awarding of the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2016, Chinese children's author Cao Wenxuan (曹文轩) won in the literature category, making him China's first Hans Christian Andersen Award winner in ether category. Consequently there was a showing of the art award winners in Shanghai. Many of the artists who work on pictures for children's literature are actually very talented artists in their own right. It was actually really interesting to see some of the original drawings for this stuff. They had quite a number of the lithographs from the 1970 illustration winner Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are along with lithographs for some of Maurice Sendak's other works. I remember reading Where the Wild Things Are when I was little so it was actually really neat to be able to see some of it in person, My friend particularly liked the images from the 2000 illustration winner Willy the Wimp by British author and illustrator Anthony Browne, because my friend grew up with the Chinese versions of his works. It was a small exhibit that was a bit pricey, but I guess it was worth the money just to see the Maurice Sendak stuff.
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Dad
5/21/2017 12:24:44 am
You've come full circle, if that is the proper term to use in the instance. The last Sendak exhibit you attended was at the Children's Museum in Philadelphia when you were about 5. You loved his work then as well.
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