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A mom thanks Sendak for giving her son's 鈥淛ester鈥� his jingle

05/30/2012 12:10 pm ET A mom's wild rumpus of memories of Maurice Sendak: She read to her son 鈥淲hat Do You Say, Dear?" That son eventually was invited to visit Sendak. And when that young man wrote a book 鈥� "The Jester Has Lost His Jingle" 鈥� about the healing nature of laughter, but died before it was published, Sendak helped launch it onto the New York Times bestseller list.