RIDGEFIELD – As a children's author, Maurice Sendak had "a singular voice" when it came to writing for his audience, according to his neighbor Harvey Fierstein. "What's sort of funny about Maurice is ...

We examine Sendak’s influences, seen in 1963's Where the Wild Things Are. Where the Wild Things Are, was published in 1963. One year later, it was heralded the Caldecott Medal winner and has since ...

Sendak was a master. I particularly liked what he said about the Where the Wild Things Are movie when it came out (he was alive at the time). He said, essentially, that no, this was not a word for ...