The Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia has filed a lawsuit against the estate of Maurice Sendak, claiming executors are withholding parts of the library that were earmarked for the museum in ...

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 ...

"And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start." This is where the Cherry family puts down Maurice Sendak's "Where The Wild Things Are" and marches, dances and howls around the living room. "Our lab ...

The Main Library is celebrating the life and works of children’s author-illustrator Maurice Sendak with “Maurice Sendak: 50 Years, Works, Reasons” at the Main Library. The memorial display will be ...

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 ...

A new exhibit highlights Sendak’s set and costume designs for opera and ballet. By the 1970s, Maurice Sendak was one of the greatest living writers and illustrators of children’s books. He had written ...

In 1978, Maurice Sendak began to design a new production of Mozart’s “Magic Flute,” which débuted in Houston two years later. (A diorama of a scene in the second act is pictured above.) A dozen Sendak ...

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 ...

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 ...