Tributes to and Interviews with Maurice Sendak

Many tributes to Maurice Sendak have been cropping up in the wake of his recent passing, and as these tributes describe Sendak's groundbreaking contributions to the world of children's literature much more eloquently than I could, I'll let them speak for themselves. From interviews with NPR and PBS to The Colbert Report, it's clear that, like his Wild Things protagonist Max, Sendak wasn't afraid to "let the wild rumpus start!"