Maurice Sendak : More Information

 Born June 10, 1928 Brooklyn, New York currently living in Connecticut

• Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are, 1964
•  Hans Christian Andersen Award for children's book illustration, 1970
• National Book Award, 1982
• Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, 1983
• National Medal of Arts, 1996
• Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, 2003 (shared with Christine Nöstlinger)

BOOKS ABOUT:

Cech, J. (1995). Angels and wild things: The archetypal poetics of Maurice Sendak. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.

Kushner, T., & Sendak, M. (2003). The art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to the present. New York: Harry N. Abrams.

Lanes, S. G., & Morton, R. (1980). The art of Maurice Sendak. New York: Abrams.

Maguire, G., & Sendak, M. (2009). Making mischief: A Maurice Sendak appreciation. New York: William Morrow.

Sendak, M., & Zinsser, W. K. (1998). Worlds of childhood: The art and craft of writing for children. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

DVDS:

Bangs, L., Jonze, S., Sendak, M., Keener, C., Gandolfini, J., Streep, M., Kushner, T. Oscilloscope Pictures. (2010). Tell them anything you want: A portrait of Maurice Sendak. New York, N.Y.: Distributed by Oscilloscope Pictures.

King, C., Sendak, M., Sendak, M., Sendak, M., & Weston Woods Studios. (2001). Maurice Sendak library: The nutshell kids ; Where the wild things are ; In the night kitchen. Weston, CT: Weston Woods.

O'Reilly, M., Sendak, M., Portia Productions (Firm), & Rosenbach Museum & Library. (2008). There's a mystery there: Sendak on Sendak : a retrospective in words and pictures. Philadelphia, PA: Rosenbach Museum & Library.

ONLINE INTERVIEWS:

Gross, T. &Sendak, M. (2011). This pig wants to party: Maurice Sendak’s latest.  Fresh Air . NPR. Available at http://www.npr.org/2011/09/20/140435330/this-pig-wants-to-party-maurice-sendaks-latest 

Inskeep, S. (2006). Why Maurice Sendak puts kids in danger. NPR books. Available at http://www.npr.org/2006/09/26/6139979/why-maurice-sendak-puts-kid-characters-in-danger 

Moyers, B. & Sendak, M. (2008). Maurice Sendak: Where the Wild Thngs Are. PBS Now. Available at http://www.pbs.org/now/arts/sendak.html 

SAMPLE of ARTICLES:

Ball, J. (1997). Max's colonial fantasy: Rereading Sendak's `Where the wild things are.'. Ariel, 28(1), 167. Available at http://ariel.synergiesprairies.ca/ariel/index.php/ariel/article/view/2942/2887 

Kümmerling-Meibauer, B. (2009). Romantic and Jewish images of childhood in Maurice Sendak's Dear Mili. European Judaism, 42(1), 5-16. doi:10.3167/ej.2009.420103

Marcus, L. S. (2011). It's my party: An Interview with Maurice Sendak. Horn Book Magazine, 87(5), 24-31.

Shaddock, J. (1997). Where the wild things are: Sendak's Journey into the heart of darkness. Children's Literature Association Quarterly, 22(4), 155-159.

Singer, R. (2011). Maurice Sendak's Where the wild things are: An exploration of the personal and the collective. Ars Judaica: The Bar-Ilan Journal Of Jewish Art, 717-32.

Stanton, J. .  (2000). Maurice Sendak's urban landscapes. Children's Literature, 28, 132-146

Sutton, R. (2003). An interview with Maurice Sendak. Horn Book Magazine, 79(6), 687-699. Available at http:// http://archive.hbook.com/magazine/articles/2003/nov03_sendak_sutton.asp 

Tannenbaum, L..  (2003). Betrayed by chicken soup: Judaism, gender and performance in Maurice Sendak's Really Rosie. The Lion and the Unicorn, 27(3), 362-376.