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Some Ottawa residents are wondering where the wild things are, or at least one of them.
A stone sculpture of a character from Maurice Sendak’s 1963 classic children’s book, Where the Wild Things Are, was stolen either late Tuesday night or sometime Wednesday from the Woodward Avenue front lawn of Laura and Mark Dennis.
The two-foot-high yellow-eyed, gap-toothed and horned concrete beast weighs approximately 100 pounds, and was made two years ago by Mark’s father, sculptor Peter Dennis, when his grandson, Jack, was two.
“We are devastated,” the family said Thursday in a post on Imgur. “Whoever took it must have planned it, there are no drag marks, they would have needed a few people or a vehicle.”
According to Laura, the sculpture was definitely on the lawn Tuesday evening, when she went out to water the flowers at its base. On Wednesday evening she noticed it was gone.
“I went in and my husband was reading stories to our kids and I couldn’t help myself; I had to tell him — ‘It’s gone. The wild thing is gone.’”
Laura added that the Sendak book has long been a fixture in the Dennis household. “I have an 18 year old as well as the four year old and two year old, and it’s been a staple in the house.”
The cement statue had its genesis in a “terrible-looking” cedar bush Laura wanted to get rid of. “I joked that I was going to put in a gargoyle that was flaming with natural gas or something. And then my father-in-law mentioned that he’d love to do something, and then all of a sudden he showed up with it. I never expected anything of that magnitude and beauty.”
The statue had also become something of a neighbourhood attraction. Since its disappearance, Laura has been contacted by a steady stream of well-wishers and neighbours mourning its loss.
“I’ve been so touched by everybody,” said Laura. “All over my Facebook page it’s, ‘We’re your neighbours. You’ve never met us but we see it every day. We walk by there with our kids on purpose.’
“It’s going to come back,” she insisted. “Somebody’s going to be shame, shame, double-shamed.”
Anyone with information can reach Laura and Mark Dennis at larla22@hotmail.com.
bdeachman@postmedia.com
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A stone sculpture of a character from Maurice Sendak’s 1963 classic children’s book, Where the Wild Things Are, was stolen either late Tuesday night or sometime Wednesday from the Woodward Avenue front lawn of Laura and Mark Dennis.
The two-foot-high yellow-eyed, gap-toothed and horned concrete beast weighs approximately 100 pounds, and was made two years ago by Mark’s father, sculptor Peter Dennis, when his grandson, Jack, was two.
“We are devastated,” the family said Thursday in a post on Imgur. “Whoever took it must have planned it, there are no drag marks, they would have needed a few people or a vehicle.”
According to Laura, the sculpture was definitely on the lawn Tuesday evening, when she went out to water the flowers at its base. On Wednesday evening she noticed it was gone.
“I went in and my husband was reading stories to our kids and I couldn’t help myself; I had to tell him — ‘It’s gone. The wild thing is gone.’”
Laura added that the Sendak book has long been a fixture in the Dennis household. “I have an 18 year old as well as the four year old and two year old, and it’s been a staple in the house.”
The cement statue had its genesis in a “terrible-looking” cedar bush Laura wanted to get rid of. “I joked that I was going to put in a gargoyle that was flaming with natural gas or something. And then my father-in-law mentioned that he’d love to do something, and then all of a sudden he showed up with it. I never expected anything of that magnitude and beauty.”
The statue had also become something of a neighbourhood attraction. Since its disappearance, Laura has been contacted by a steady stream of well-wishers and neighbours mourning its loss.
“I’ve been so touched by everybody,” said Laura. “All over my Facebook page it’s, ‘We’re your neighbours. You’ve never met us but we see it every day. We walk by there with our kids on purpose.’
“It’s going to come back,” she insisted. “Somebody’s going to be shame, shame, double-shamed.”
Anyone with information can reach Laura and Mark Dennis at larla22@hotmail.com.
bdeachman@postmedia.com
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