Maurice Sendak, an author and illustrator whose dozens ... genre long dominated by precious and precocious tots. His books jettisoned the notion of warm and fuzzy bedtime stories in favor of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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From illuminated books by William Blake to the work of Beatrix Potter and Walt Disney, the legendary artist and author’s trove of treasures offers a window into his imaginative universe — offered in ...