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How do you write for children? I really have never figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it

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Maurice Sendak
Age: 83 †
Born: 1928
Born: June 10
Died: 2012
Died: May 8
Artist
Cartoonist
Graphic Designer
Illustrator
Painter
Screenwriter
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Maurice Bernard Sendak
Figured
Ignore
Decided
Write
Children
Writing
Really
Never

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