Greg Moody Looks Back At Author Maurice Sendak's Life

DENVER (CBS4) - One of the guiding lights of children's literature passed away on Tuesday. Maurice Sendak was 83 when he died at his home in Connecticut due to complications from a recent stroke.

CBS4 Critic at Large Greg Moody to a look back at Sendak's life.

"Maurice Sendak was the man who almost singlehandedly took children's literature out of the safe and sanitized world of the 1950s and put it back where it belonged -- in the dark and hidden recesses of a child's mind where fear and frights, courage and ego all collide in a high energy muddle," Moody said. "These stories have touched both children and the adults reading them aloud for the past 50 years."

Watch Moody's report in the video below:

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