Maurice Sendak

From a Good article:

[Children] want some agency in a world that continually tells them they’re too stupid, immature, and small to do anything of real value. Between signs reading “You must be this tall to ride this ride” and restrictive bedtimes, children are well aware that adults think less of them, and that realization is infuriating when they know they’re smarter than anyone realizes. It’s easy to tell from Sendak’s work that he understood children felt this way, and that he refused to treat them like the impotent dullards many adults took them for.