Maurice Sendak, the children’s author and illustrator best known for the 1963 classic “Where the Wild Things Are,” is dead at age 83, the New York Times reports. full story ![]()

Where would the world of children's literature be without "Where the Wild Things Are"? The illustrated book by Maurice Sendak, first published in 1963, has enthralled and entertained millions of children worldwide. Though it initially sparked...
ocregister.com (2 months and 24 days ago)
Maurice Sendak died last May at 83 after years of health problems, but had managed to finish 'My Brother's Book,' published this month. In it, admirers of 'Where the Wild Things Are' and other Sendak stories will recognize its themes of danger, flight and fantasy captured in a dreamy-scary swirl that demonstrates Sendak's debt to William Blake.
mercurynews.com (3 months and 10 days ago)

Where the Wild Things Are author's last completed work, My Brother's Book, is a tribute to his own siblingTake a look at the book's pictures hereFifty years after the iconic Where the Wild Things Are was first published, the late Maurice Sendak's final completed book, a tribute to his brother Jack, is set for release.Inspired by Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale and influenced...
guardian.co.uk (3 months and 11 days ago)

As a tribute to the late Maurice Sendak, some of the best-loved children's illustrators in America are donating original work to be auctioned at BookExpo America. The auction will also include a rare image created by Sendak himself. The 19th Annual Children's Book Art Silent Auction is celebrating the author of Where The Wild Things Are, and all proceeds will be donated to...
huffingtonpost.com (23 days ago)

Where the Wild Things Are's author made a huge impact on me, and it required conscious effort to evade his influenceThere is a reason the character of the Boy in my first picture books wears a red and white stripy jumper, and that reason is Maurice Sendak. Or, more specifically, that reason is an homage to my favorite monster in Sendak's most famous picture book, Where the...
guardian.co.uk (3 months and 10 days ago)

Maurice Sendak's last book is a beautiful but devastating tribute to his brotherOver a career spanning seven decades, Maurice Sendak illustrated more than 90 books, but when he died last May at the age of 83, tributes were dominated by one: Where the Wild Things Are, which turns 50 this year. The thousands of perfect pen strokes on each of its pages are a far cry from My...
guardian.co.uk (2 months and 25 days ago)

A preview of the Where the Wild Things Are's final completed work, a tribute to his brother Jack
guardian.co.uk (3 months and 11 days ago)
Maurice Sendak, the famed children's book author and illustrator, who passed away on May 7th will be memorialized with a public school named in his honor. On February 8th PS 118 in Park Slope Brooklyn announced on their parents website that their school will be named for the Caldecott Medal winning creator of Where the Wild Things Are. "My 4.5 year old daughter is a little...
huffingtonpost.com (3 months and 13 days ago)
Maurice Sendak, the famed children's book author and illustrator, who passed away on May 7th will be memorialized with a public school named in his honor. On February 8th, PS118 in Park Slope Brooklyn announced on their parents website that their school will be named for the Caldecott Medal winning creator of Where the Wild Things Are. "My 4.5 year old daughter is a little...
huffingtonpost.com (3 months and 13 days ago)

Years ago, when I was teaching at Berkeley, I received a peculiar note circulated among faculty members by the head of the humanities center. Maurice Sendak had been invited to give a public lecture, the note said, and he was scheduled to arrive on campus very soon.
huffingtonpost.com (3 months and 9 days ago)
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