![]() ![]() Fitzgerald, Outside My Window (Liesel Moak Skorpen), Margaret’s Birthday (Jan Wahl), Grandmother Told Me (Jan Wahl), Boy Was I Mad (Kathryn Hitte), The Boy Who Made a Million (Sidney Offit), etc… BUT Maurice Sendak and Mercer Mayer are both men, and they were dark-haired boys once. Mercer Mayer’s “boy”-character probably started with the unnamed boy in A Boy, a Dog and a Frog book and developed into many other similar looking/feeling boys in Terrible Troll, There's a Nightmare in My Closet, I am a Hunter, A Special Trick, Bubble Bubble, You’re the Scaredy Cat, etc (and also with slightly different color hair or glasses in If I Had…, Mine, A Silly Story, and others)… plus some of his illustrations for other authors like in The Great Brain series by John D. ![]() For Maurice Sendak, this is probably his “Pierre” archetype (which may have started in some of his early illustrations for Ruth Krauss books like A Hole is to Dig). ![]() They both have dark-haired boys that they’ve used for their characters. Secondly, they do both have a couple of “boy”-style characters that appear in a lot of their works. ![]()
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