“I like interesting people, and kids are really interesting people, and if you didn’t paint them in little blue, pink and yellow, it’s even more interesting,” said Maurice Sendak, children’s author and illustrator who died last month at the age of 83. We think children are interesting, too, and have created a place and space where we encourage creativity, curiosity and compassion. We also recognize that children need fantasy and ways to deal with the emotions that they hold inside and can’t clearly define…kind of like Max in “Where the Wild Things Are.” Sendak said, “From their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions–fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives, they continually cope with frustrations as best they can. And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things.”