Fantasy Reads: Things you didn’t know about The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien #1

Did you know that celebrated American children’s book writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak (1928 – 2012) nearly ended up working on the 30th anniversary deluxe edition of The Hobbit? Sendak was first approached for the opportunity when his 1963 picture book Where the Wild Things Are had just been published. Why didn’t the imminent creative partnership happen? … Read more