Maurice Sendak, the children's book author and illustrator who saw the sometimes-dark side of childhood in books like "Where the Wild Things Are" and "In the Night Kitchen," died early Tuesday. He was ...

Maurice Sendak, “Diorama of Moishe scrim and flower proscenium (Where the Wild Things Are)” (1979-1983) watercolor, pen and ink, and graphite pencil on laminated paperboard (© The Maurice Sendak ...

The nine-foot statue will depict characters from "Where the Wild Things Are" and be outside of the Ridgefield Library.

Maurice Sendak was my first real author. Before Dostoevsky and Dickens. Before Fitzgerald and Alice Walker and Hemingway and Lermontov. Now he is gone. And that makes me very sad. Among his last books ...

Now in its second season, HarperCollins's reissue of 22 Sendak classics continues. This time, his collaborations with Ruth Krauss take center stage. In Charlotte and the White Horse, first published ...

Cardboard creatures inspired by Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are” are expected to greet hikers on the Skyline Trail section of the North Country Trail during a family event planned on ...

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Very sad news this morning: Maurice Sendak, the author of Where the Wild Things Are, has died at the age of 83, The New York Times reports. The Times' Margalit Fox writes the cause of death was ...