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Like many other parents, my wife and I think that building a child's library creates an important gateway to acquiring a lifelong interest, passion and love for reading. Thus far, our 4-year-old son, Andrew, seems to enjoy his copious amount of books. We hope this early passion for literature continues to grow and develop.
The last completed book we are likely to get from Maurice Sendak remembers a man he often insisted was the real genius of the family, his brother Jack.
A collection of works by the late children's author Maurice Sendak is coming to a New York City auction.
Neil Armstrong would always be taking that first step onto the moon, and Dick Clark was forever "the world's oldest teenager." Some of the notables who died in 2012 created images in our minds that remained unchanged over decades.
Talk show host Stephen Colbert's foray into children's books has landed him alongside some exalted literary company.
If you mess up in Turkey, a common way to laugh it off is to invoke Cin Ali, the squiggly stick figure in a cap whose benign adventures in picture books helped a generation of Turks learn to read.
The claws and teeth of wild things are a near-nightly affair at bedtime for Gregg Svingen's 2-year-old, Tessa. She raises a tiny index finger and issues a clear and forceful "Be still!" to knock Maurice Sendak's monsters into shape.
Maurice Sendak's closest friends gathered in his hospital room _ playwright Tony Kushner, authors Brian Selznick and Gregory Maguire. Kushner brought jellybeans, while Maguire placed a picture of Lewis Carroll on the table beside Sendak's bed.
Maurice Sendak didn't think of himself as a children's author, but as an author who told the truth about childhood.
Maurice Sendak, the children's book author and illustrator who saw the sometimes dark side of childhood in books such as "Where the Wild Things Are" and "In the Night Kitchen," died early Tuesday. He was 83.
Maurice Sendak was not interested in being loved. His curmudgeonly persona became as much a part of his legend as his famed book, "Where the Wild Things Are." But loved he was. The death on Tuesday of the author and illustrator who revolutionized children's books prompted an outpouring from authors and other celebrities roaring their terrible roars.
On Tuesday, Maurice Sendak passed away at age 83. One of the world's most influential children's authors, his seminal work, "Where the Wild Things Are" (1963), can be found on most bookshelves of young and old alike.
With the blessing of Maurice Sendak, Stephen Colbert is releasing a children's book.
With the blessing of Maurice Sendak, Stephen Colbert is releasing a children's book.
The Black Eyed Peas and Kermit the Frog are joining the lineup of performers who will help light the National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse.
According to Kushner, Sendak wrote the text in the late 1990s and kept it in a drawer along with other possible projects.
Right after he had cataract surgery, he was lamenting he couldn't draw and he was getting depressed and angry about it.
