Throughout his life, Where the Wild Things Are author Maurice Sendak made no distinction between writing for adults and writing for children. Now the courts will have their say. The estate retains ...

Maurice Sendak is of course the renowned author and illustrator of children’s books such as Where the Wild Things Are (1963) and In the Night Kitchen (1970), but less well-known are his works for ...

Maurice Sendak, illustrator and author of nearly 100 books and winner of ALA’s 1964 Caldecott Medal for Where The Wild Things Are, died May 8. He was 83. Creator of amazing nightmares, as the New York ...

Maurice Sendak had many reasons to be unhappy. He was born to Polish Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn in 1928, and his childhood was defined by the deaths of his extended family in the Holocaust, a loss ...

The exhibit, “In a Nutshell: The Worlds of Maurice Sendak,” will be on display at Fort Bend County Libraries’ George Memorial Library, 1001 Golfview in Richmond, beginning March 8, and will continue ...

“Please don’t go. We’ll eat you up. We love you so,” said KW, one of the creatures from Maurice Sendak’s beloved book “Where the Wild Things Are.” On Tuesday, many of Sendak’s fans and literary buffs ...

The Brooklyn Public Library has just announced that Where the Wild Things Are is its most borrowed book. Since Oct. 27, the institution has been sharing its 125 most checked-out books throughout its ...

Here are some of our staff’s favorites, for ages 4 to 8. By The New York Times Books Staff From 1940 to 1973, Ursula Nordstrom transformed kids’ books into real art and big business. A new middle ...