Maurice Sendak

Also known as Maurice Bernard Sendak

American illustrator and writer of children's books (1928-2012)

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Person · Open Library

Born: 10 June 1928
Died: 08 May 2012
Works: 87

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Higleṭi Pigleṭi Pop!
Bet shishim ha-avot
Cuentos judios de la aldea de Chelm
Mah atah yakhol la-ʻaśot ʻim naʻal?
Galgal ʻal ha-gag

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1928-06-10
Active to: 2012-05-08

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Discography

Higglety Pigglety Pop! & Where The Wild Things Are2001

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Listeners: 384
Total plays: 1,352

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Recent publications · Crossref

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Quotes

“And when he came to the place where the wild things are, they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws till Max said, "Be still" and tamed them with the magic trick of staring into all their yellow eyes without blinking once. And they were frightened and called him the most wild thing of all and made him king of all wild things.”
“"And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!"”
“Please don't go. We'll eat you up. We love you so.”
“There must be more to life than having everything!”
“I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing, but we prefer to relegate fantasy to children, as though it were some tomfoolery only fit for the immature minds of the young. Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.”
“I wanted my wild things to be frightening. But why? It was probably at this point that I remembered how I detested my Brooklyn relatives as a small child. They came almost every Sunday, and there was my week-long anxiety about their coming the next Sunday... They'd lean way over with their bad teeth and hairy noses, and say something threatening like "You're so cute I could eat you up." And I knew if my mother didn't hurry up with the cooking, they probably would.”

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Key facts

Born: Maurice Bernard Sendak , ( 1928-06-10 ) June 10, 1928, Brooklyn, New York , U.S.
Died: May 8, 2012 (2012-05-08) (aged 83), Danbury, Connecticut , U.S.
Occupation: Artist illustrator writer
Alma mater: Art Students League of New York
Period: 1947–2012
Genre: Children's literature picture books
Partner: Eugene David Glynn (1957–2007; Glynn's death)
Parents: Philip Sendak Sadie Schindler
Relatives: Jack Sendak (brother)

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Wikidata facts

Official website: www.mauricesendak.com

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date of death: 2012-05-08
date of birth: 1928-06-10
start of work period: 1947-00-00
Commons category: Maurice Sendak
birth name: Maurice Bernard Sendak
name in native language: Maurice Sendak
end of work period: 2012-01-01
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Encyclopedic overview

Maurice Bernard Sendak (/ˈsɛndæk/; June 10, 1928 – May 8, 2012) was an American author and illustrator of children's books. Born to Polish-Jewish parents, his childhood was impacted by the death of many of his family members during the Holocaust. Sendak illustrated his own books as well as those by other authors, such as the Little Bear series by Else Holmelund Minarik. He achieved acclaim with Where the Wild Things Are (1963), the first of a trilogy followed by In the Night Kitchen (1970) and Outside Over There (1981). He also designed sets for operas, notably Mozart's The Magic Flute.

In 1987, Sendak was the subject of an American Masters documentary, "Mon Cher Papa". In 1996, he received the National Medal of Arts. Per Margalit Fox, Sendak, "the most important children's book artist of the 20th century", "wrenched the picture book out of the safe, sanitized world of the nursery and plunged it into the dark, terrifying and hauntingly beautiful recesses of the human psyche."

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Maurice Sendak” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.