Wild Things!

  “My God, Max. . . with his mother!”: Used by permission of Cynthia Zarin.

  “They are limited to. . . no voice at all”: Used by permission of Hunger Mountain and Erin Stead.

  PHOTOGRAPHY AND ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

  1. Images courtesy of Thacher Hurd.

  2. Illustration from The Paper Bag Princess 25th Anniversary Edition: The Story Behind the Story copyright © 2005 by Bob Munsch Enterprises Ltd. (text), Michael Martchenko (art), published by Annick Press Ltd. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.

  3. Illustration from Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans, copyright 1939 by Ludwig Bemelmans, renewed © 1967 by Madeleine Bemelmans and Barbara Bemelmans Marciano. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

  4. Image courtesy of the Estate of Arnold Lobel.

  5. “They kissed and hugged each other for ever so long,” from Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley, illustrated by Jessie Wilcox Smith. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsc-05898.

  6. Cover of Annie on My Mind copyright © 1982 by Nancy Garden. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

  7. Illustration from Will You Sign Here, John Hancock? by Jean Fritz, pictures by Trina Schart Hyman, illustrations copyright © 1976 by Trina Schart Hyman. Used by permission of G.P. Putnam’s Sons, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

  8. Illustration courtesy of the estate of Trina Schart Hyman.

  9. Page from The Fortune-Tellers by Lloyd Alexander, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman, illustrations copyright © 1992 by Trina Schart Hyman. Used by permission of Dutton Children’s Books, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

  10. Cover of 2008 U.S. hardcover edition of How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Staniši. Used by permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc. Any third party use of this material, outside of this publication, is prohibited.

  11. Illustration by Maurice Sendak. Copyright © 1967 by Maurice Sendak, used by permission of the Wylie Agency LLC.

  12. Image courtesy of Amy June Bates.

  13. Photo copyright © by Silvia Mautner Photography.

  14. Cover of The Story of Harold by Terry Andrews. Copyright © 1974 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Illustrations by Edward Gorey. Copyright © by Avon Books. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

  15. Image used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

  AUTHORS’ ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  We would like to thank the following people for assisting us with occasional brainstorming sessions and/or research, as well as the procurement of images for this book: Kajsa Anderson, Amy June Bates, Tanita S. Davis, Farida Dowler, Adrienne Furness, Jerry Griswold, Kathleen T. Horning, Thacher Hurd, M. E. Kerr, Allison Key, Lara Beth Lehman, Adam Lobel, Adrianne Lobel, Richard Michelson, Eisha Neely, Dr. Philip Nel, Adam Rex, Lolly Robinson, Howard Scherry, George Shannon, Katrin Tchana, and Heather A. Wade. Many thanks to Patricia Lee Gauch and the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art for our subtitle. Abundant gratitude to Dr. Ann Neely and our research interns, Justine Cook, Emily Giuliani, Madison Keck Jones, Susan Johns, Meryl Sweeney, and Evanne Ushman. It was an honor for us to work with editors Liz Bicknell and Carter Hasegawa, as well as the entire Candlewick team. It is a pleasure to be represented by and collaborate with Stephen Barbara and Foundry Literary + Media. With love, we thank the family of Peter D. Sieruta, especially John Sieruta. And we thank and send lots of love to our respective families, the Bird and Danielson clans.

  Last, but far from least, we thank all the authors and illustrators who told us their stories.

  Text copyright © 2014 by Betsy Bird, Julie Danielson, and Peter D. Sieruta

  Cover illustration copyright © 2014 by David Roberts (boy)

  Bunny illustrations copyright © 2014 by David Roberts

  Copyright acknowledgments appear here, and photography and illustration credits appear here.

  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in an information retrieval system in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, taping, and recording, without prior written permission from the publisher.

  First electronic edition 2014

  Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 2013946618

  ISBN 978-0-7636-5150-3 (hardcover)

  ISBN 978-0-7636-6771-9 (electronic)

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