THE REPORT: A longtime friend remembers the legendary children's author. By Jules Feiffer The author signing prints in 1990 from "The Mother Goose Collection." Maurice changed the way people looked at ...

Earlier this year, mad children's author/illustrator/curmudgeon Maurice Sendak appeared on The Colbert Report television program. Over the course of a two-episode ...

Maurice Sendak at his home in Ridgefield, Connecticut, in 1990 Barbara Alper / Getty Images You may know Maurice Sendak for his beloved children’s books like Where the Wild Things Are, but many don’t ...

Historian and critic Leonard Marcus first met Maurice Sendak, who died on May 8, in the late 1980s, as Parenting magazine’s book reviewer. In the years that followed, they talked from time to time ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The last completed book we are likely to get from Maurice Sendak remembers a man he often insisted was the real genius of the family, his brother Jack. Sendak died last May at age 83 ...

For decades, the author of “In the Night Kitchen” and “The Nutshell Library” fortified himself with art and words. At Maurice Sendak’s house, whimsy, art ...

Award-winning children's author and illustrator Maurice Sendak has died at 83. He shot to fame in 1963 with his picture book 'Where The Wild Things Are'. He published several more books, including 'In ...

Bumble-ardy is an orphaned pig, who has reached the age of 9 without ever having a birthday party. He tells his Aunt Adeline that he would like to have a party for his ninth birthday, so Aunt Adeline ...

Long before award-winning illustrator and writer Maurice Sendak's world of wild things charmed millions of young readers and changed the notion of what children's literature could look like, some of ...

"Both are virtuosos of their crafts. Mr. King's skillful adaptation reads as though he were looking over Maurice's shoulder." Shane Leonard; John Dugdale Stephen King and Maurice Sendak have given a ...

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 ...