Maurice Sendak, the inspired children’s book illustrator who showed us Where the Wild Things Are, died this morning in Danbury, Conn., from complications of a stroke. He was 83. Seattle has enjoyed its own touch of Sendak for nearly 30 years, every time his Nutcracker takes the stage at McCaw Hall. In 1983, while collaborating with Pacific Northwest Ballet’s then-artistic director Kent Stowell, Sendak created a new kind of dreamworld...