I read it in disbelief, Michael di Capua, Sendaks longtime publisher, toldPublishers Weekly.

What a miracle to find this buried treasure in the archives.

To think something as good as this has been lying around there gathering dust.

Maurice Sendak

Credit: Mary Altaffer/AP

See one of the illustrations below.

We both agreed they could, but what was story?

Yorinks recalled, describing the hysterical afternoon of cracking each other up that ensued.

The story became an homage to our own friendship so we named the characters after ourselves Presto and Zesto.

Presto and Zesto in Limbolandwill be released with minor revisions from Yorinks.