Stephen Kroninger writes with images of his family copy of Beatrice Shenk de Regniers's What Can You Do With a Shoe? The book, illustrated by Maurice Sendak, was published in 1955 and was reissued in 1997. Sendak signed it at a private book launch party held at Simon and Schuster. Sendak misspelled the name of Stephen's wife and covered up the mistake by camouflaging it in the hair of a wild thing drawn on the spot. He then got the spelling right on the second attempt. A happy accident, I'd say.
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Photo by Stephen Kroninger |
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Photo by Stephen Kroninger |
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| Photo by Stephen Kroninger |
Note: Thanks to Stephen Kroninger for sharing his book with us. This is Stephen's 35th contribution to Attempted Bloggery.
Books with original sketches by Maurice Sendak are welcome here, even if he made a mistake.
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