The much-loved favourite children's bestseller in paperback.
Maurice Sendak was born in Brooklyn, New York. He began by illustrating other authors' books for children, but the first book that he both wrote and illustrated was Kenny's Window, published in 1956. Since then he has illustrated over 80 books, and has won many awards, including the 1964 Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are. In 1970 he was the first American to win the Hans Christian Andersen Illustrator's Medal. In 1978 the University of Boston made him Doctor of Humane Letters and in 1983 he won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for a 'substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children over a period of years'.
Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books -
the words, the rhythm and the design are all wonderful. * S
Magazine, Sunday Express *
The greatest picture book ever written -- Chris Riddell, Children's
Laureate * Guardian *
The key to Sendak's success and to the continuing hipness of his
book, is that it's hero is not a good child . . . the book is, in
fact, extraordinarily childcentric, a book written for and about
terrible infants, the kind of terrible infants that most children
really are and that all adults remain for much of the time -- David
Baddiel * The Times *
This is my never-fail picture book. The text is very short, but
utterly perfect, the illustrations are tremendous -- Jacqueline
Wilson
Gripping, ingenious and uplifting . . . a shrewd, fierce, healing
book -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent *
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