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 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 ...

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 ...

Throughout his life, Where the Wild Things Are author Maurice Sendak made no distinction between writing for adults and writing for children. Now the courts will have their say. The estate retains ...

HAVERFORD TWP. – The Haverford Township Free Library is one of 35 libraries in the nation and the only library in the area to host a traveling exhibition about artist Maurice Sendak. Organized by the ...

PHILADELPHIA — Talk show host Stephen Colbert’s foray into children’s books has landed him alongside some exalted literary company. A playful new exhibit at the Rosenbach Museum & Library pairs ...

The exhibit, “In a Nutshell: The Worlds of Maurice Sendak,” will be on display at Fort Bend County Libraries’ George Memorial Library, 1001 Golfview in Richmond, beginning March 8, and will continue ...

In 1969, children's author and illustrator Maurice Sendak wrote excitedly about his work on In the Night Kitchen. “I’m mad for it-and it’s mad,” he noted. Final artwork of title page for In the Night ...

The Morgan Library & Museum explores a dense, underappreciated period in the artist’s career in an exhibition of sketches, dioramas and more. By Zachary Woolfe There is a drawing that gets to the root ...

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 ...