The late author-illustrator, creator of Pierre and Where the Wild Things Are, loved whistling, Mozart, and Mickey Mouse curios. His trademark... Maurice Sendak delights children with new book, 12 ...

My mother’s glamorous friend Ronnie gave her “Where the Wild Things Are” as a 40th birthday gift. I was 11, my sister was 10, my brother 18 and out of the house, but it was 1978, and that Maurice ...

Maurice Sendak, widely considered the most important children's book artist of the 20th century, who wrenched the picture book out of the safe, sanitized world of the nursery and plunged it into the ...

In "Ten Little Rabbits," a new posthumous picture book by Maurice Sendak, Mino the Magician waves his wand and, poof, a rabbit appears. Another wave and out springs a second and then a third. By the ...

Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen follow the breadcrumbs. By Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen From erotic drawings to Mickey Mouse on a motorcycle, works in the author’s home nurtured his creativity. They’ll ...

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