executive director of The Maurice Sendak Foundation. "He" also didn't look like most of the other boys in children's books in the 1950s, says curator Jonathan Weinberg. "Maurice really had created ...

Christie’s will present an unprecedented opportunity to explore the images and ideas that fed the imagination of one of the most beloved picture book artists in history, the late Maurice Sendak, whose ...

A rare Maurice Sendak picture story ... editorial director of HarperCollins Children’s Books, said in a statement. Sendak conceived the pamphlet for the Philadelphia-based Rosenbach Museum ...

An upcoming edition of “Hansel and Gretel” combines the dark and singular talents of two literary giants who apparently never met: Stephen King and the late Maurice Sendak. HarperCollins ...

Maurice Sendak's own work isn't the most valuable in a sale of his collections. That's William Blake's 18th century, ...

Where the Wild Things Are is number one on BBC Culture's poll of the greatest children's books. Imogen Carter explores its appeal. Accepting the coveted Caldecott medal in 1964, an annual award ...

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Despite the criticism his books sometimes faced, Sendak was never targeted on account ... and Caspar David Friedrich. “Maurice was obsessed with German romanticism,’’ Weinberg said.

On a frigid Wednesday afternoon, sunbeams poured into Maurice Sendak’s studio in Ridgefield, Connecticut, crisscrossing one another with the precision and warmth of the children’s books that ...

Beloved American children's author and illustrator Maurice Sendak probably needs ... compelled the young Sendak to find solace in books. When Sendak was 12, he watched Walt Disney's Fantasia ...