Artist: Maurice Sendak
Maker and Year: Mudpuppy (Galison), 2009
Count: 36 pieces
Final size: 16 x 16″
Piece Type/Variety: Ribbon cut, average
Piece quality: Good
Skin irritation: None
When your head is stuffy and body achy from fighting off a virus (nothing serious, just kinda miserable here) but you still can’t nod off to sleep right away . . . the next best thing to books is little puzzles. In bed. So I gathered up a few of my kids’ old puzzles, that they have long outgrown but we kept around for nostalgia sake. Pretty sure I remember buying this puzzle for a few dollars in a video rental store that was closing down. It’s as old as my car, ha ha. Funny, I don’t think of this as a vintage object, but searches online that find it for sale on ebay and the like, some of them list it as vintage. I’m really sad that it’s missing a piece. And discovered in my poking around online that it’s part of a little series- there’s at least one more that depicts Max swinging through the jungle with a different monster. It would be cool to have a larger (adult) puzzle showing all the monster characters and Max, from one of those double spreads in the book. Maybe someday I’ll come across one (though I’ve looked, and such doesn’t seem to exist).
Anyhow, as a kid puzzle this is still very nice. The pieces are decent thickness, they’ve stood up well over the years. The box is a cute little exact cube. I’ve not much else to say.
