Wild Thing for Peace

Wild Thing for Peace Cause Button Museum
Category
Cause
Additional Images
Wild Thing for Peace button back Cause Button Museum
Sub Categories
Illustrations
Maurice Sendak
Text on Button I'M A WILD THING FOR PEACE
Image Description

Illustration of a "wild thing" in a yellow and darker yellow striped shirt with orange scaled legs and claw like hands and feet and horns on a light purple background with black text
Curl Text THE BIG BOOK OF ART FOR PEACE DUTTON ART copyright 1990 MAURICE SENDAK
Back Style
Locking pin
The Shape
Circle
The Size
2 1/4 inch
Year / Decade Made
1990
1990s
Additional Information

The illustration on this button is from The Big Book of Peace (1990), which features 17 stories by well-known children’s authors. The book was written to encourage children to talk about and celebrate peace. This particular illustration was contributed by Maurice Sendak, author and illustrator of Where the Wild Things Are (1963).
Sources

Durell, A. & Sachs, M. (Eds.) (1990). The big book of peace. New York: Dutton Children’s Books.
Catalog ID CA0314