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(POSTERS.) Sendak, Maurice. New York Herald Tribune and Children's Book Week posters. Herald Tribune design shows a boy in his father's clothing and top hat reading a book, surrounded by vignettes of children reading; printed in green, black, and white on stiff board, very good condition. Book Week design is Hurray for Books! and shows a clown playing a tuba, juggling books and walking a tight rope; multicolored design on paper, with usual vertical and horizontal center folds, a few mild creases. Each measures 559x432 mm; 22x17 inches. Np, circa 1957; 1960
The Book Week image is Sendak's first poster design. November 13-19, 1960 marked the 42nd celebration of National Children's Book Week, which took as its slogan the phrase, 'Hurray For Books!' The advertising poster was designed by Maurice Sendak and the bookmarks carried the poem by Elizabeth Coatsworth titled "Hurray For Books!" You can look at a book And better still, read it. A book is a friend When you happen to need it. And when you are through You can still think about it -- So, 'Hurray For Books!'. Don't say it, but shout it!
