Source: Harper CollinsMaurice Sendak [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Sendak], 83 passed away this morning from complications due to a stroke. He leaves behind a legacy of wildly imaginative children’s stories, including “Where the Wild Things Are [http://www.amazon.com/Where-Wild-Things-Maurice-Sendak/dp/0060254920]” and “In the Night Kitchen [http://www.amazon.com/In-Night-Kitchen-Caldecott-Collection/dp/0060266686/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1336490006&sr=1-1] .” For more than…

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“Sendak’s art has been meaningful for so many of us and will certainly be for future generations.”

In 1982 Maurice Sendak was interviewed by the BBC’s arts documentary series Omnibus. ‘The highly reclusive writer’ had just completed designs for a production of Profokiev’s opera, The Love of Thre…

The exhibition will include nearly 150 objects drawn primarily from the artist’s bequest to the Morgan of over 900 drawings.

Maurice Sendak, most notably the writer and illustrator of the children’s book Where The Wild Things Are, passed away today. There were many books I loved as a child, Green Eggs and Ham by Dr…

Presto & Zesto in Limboland by Arthur Yorinks, Maurice Sendak available in Hardcover on Powells.com, also read synopsis and reviews. Fans of Maurice Sendak's Caldecott Medal-winning Where the Wild Things Are will love Presto and...

RIP.

We’ve been spoiled with some amazing books about children’s books lately. First came the essential Oxford Companion by Daniel Hahn, with three and a half thousand perfectly encapsulated entries on the entire history of children’s literature. Now comes a far more selective publication by Martin Salisbury, professor of illustration at the Cambridge school of art.…