Male : Children's Writer and illustrator

Nationality : American Place of Birth : Brooklyn, New York

Date of Birth : 1928

Education : Lafayette HS

All American editions by Harper
1954-1960
I'll Be You and You Be Me (1954)
Kenny's Window : A Tale for Children (1956)
Happy Rain (1956)
Very Far Away : A Tale (1957) (1959 World's Work)
The Acrobat (1959 PP)
The Sign on Rosie's Door (1960) (1969 Hamish Hamilton)

1961-1970
The Nutshell Library : Alligators All Around, Chicken Soup with Rice, One Was Johnny, Pierre
(1962) (1964 Collins) - 4 vols. Verse. Slipcase
Where the Wild Things Are (1963) (1967 BH)
Hector Protector and As I went Over the Water (1965) (1967 Bodley Head)
Higglety Pigglety Pop ! or, There Must be More to Life (1967) (1969 BH)
Lullabies and Night Songs (1969 Bodley Head)
In the Night Kitchen (1970) (1971 BH)
Fantasy Sketches (1970 Rosenbach US)

1971-1980
The Magician : A Counting Book (1971 Rosenbach, US)
Pictures (1971) - 500 (1972 BH)
In Sarah's Room (1972 Bodley Head)
Fantasy Sketches (1972 Rosenbach US)
Really Rosie (1975) - play
Seven Little Monsters (1976) (1977 Bodley Head)
Some Swell Pup, or, Are You Sure you Want a Dog ? (1976 Farrar Straus) (1976 BH)
- with Matthew Margolis
Cinderella (1977 Heinemann/Gallery Five)

1981 Onwards
Outside Over There (1981) (1981 BH £5.95)
The Love For Three Oranges (1984 Farrar Straus Giroux) (1984 Bodley Head)
- Sendak designs for stage & costumes
The Nutcracker (1984) (1984 BH)
Collection of Books, Posters & original Drawings (1984 Schiller, US)
The Cunning Little Vixen (1986 Bodley Head)
The Posters (1987 Harmony Books, NY) (1987 Bodley Head)
Caldecott & Co : Notes on Books and Pictures
(1988 Farrar Straus Giroux) - 250 signed (1989 Reinhardt Books £13.95)
We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy (1993 Harper Collins £9.99)

Books illustrated
Hans Christian ANDERSEN : Seven Tales (1959 Harper)
Marcel AYME : The Wonderful Farm (1951 Harper US)
The Magic Pictures (1954 Harper US)
Gladys Baker BOND : Seven Little Stories on Big Subjects
(1955 The Anti-Defamation League, US)
Clemens BRENTANO : The Tale of Gockel, Hinkel & Gackeliah (1961 Random House)
Schoolmaster Whackwell's Wonderful Sons (1962 Random House)
M C EIDENOFF : Atomics for the Millions (1947 McGraw Hill)
Robert GARVEY : Good Shabbos, Everybody !
(1951 Utd Synagogue Commission on Jewish Education)
Robert GRAVES : The Big Green Book (1962 Crowell-Crozier) (1978 Puffin pb)
Brothers GRIMM : The Juniper Tree & Other Tales (1973 Farrar Straus Giroux)
(1974 Bodley Head) - 2 vols
King Grisly-Beard (1974 Bodley Head)
Dear Mili (1988 Michael di Capua/FSG) (1988 Viking Kestrel)
Wilhelm HAUFF : Dwarf Long Nose (1960 Random House) (1979 Bodley Head)
E T A HOFFMAN : The Nutcracker (1984 Harper) (1984 Bodley Head)
HYMAN & CHANOVER : Happy Hanukah Everybody
(1955 Utd Synagogue Commission on Jewish Education)
Randall JARRELL : The Bat-Poet (1964 Macmillan US) (1977 Kestrel)
Animal People (1965 Random House)
The Animal Family (1965 Pantheon) (1967 Hart-Davis)
Fly By Night (1976 Farrar Straus Giroux) (1977 Bodley Head)
Meindart de JONG : Shadrach (1953 Harper US)
Hurry Home, Candy (1953 Harper)
The Wheel on the School (1954 Harper) (1956 Lutterworth Press)
The Little Cow and the Turtle (1955 Harper) (1961 Lutterworth)
The House of Sixty Fathers (1956 Harper)
Along Came a Dog (1958 Harper)
The Singing Hill (1962 Harper)
Sesyle JOSLIN : What Do You Say Dear (1958 Young Scott, US) (1958 Faber)
What Do You Do, Dear ? (1961 Young Scott, US)
Robert KEESHAM : She Loves me, She Loves Me Not (1963 Harper)
Ruth KRAUSS : A Hole is to Dig - A First Book of Definitions (1952 Harper US)
(1963 Hamish Hamilton)
A Very Special House (1953 Harper US)
I'll Be You and You Be Me (1954 Harper US)
Charlotte and the White Horse (1955 Harper) (1977 Bodley Head)
I Want to Paint My Bathroom Blue (1956 Harper)
The Birthday Party (1957 Harper)
Somebody Else's Nut Tree & other Tales (1958 Harper)
Open House for Butterflies (1960 Harper)
Betty MACDONALD : Mrs Piggle Wiggle's Farm (1954 Lippincott)
George MACDONALD : The Light Princess (1969 Bodley Head)
The Golden Key (1972 Bodley Head)
Else Holmelund MINARIK : Little Bear (1957 Harper) (1958 World's Work)
No Fighting, No Biting ! (1958 Harper) (1969 Tadworth)
Father Bear Comes Home (1959 Harper) (1960 World's Work)
Little Bear's Friend (1960 Harper) (1961 World's Work)
Little Bear's Visit (1961 Harper) (1962 World's Work)
A Kiss for Little Bear (1968 Harper) (1969 World's Work)
Ogden NASH : You Can't Get There from Here (1957 Little Brown)
Iona OPIE : I Saw Esau (1992 Walker)
Doris ORGEL : Sarah's Room (1963 Harper) (1972 Bodley Head)
B D de REGNIERS : The GIant Story (1953 Harper)
What Can You do with a Shoe ? (1955 Harper)
Jean RITCHIE : The Singing Family of the Cumberlands (1955 OUP)
Ruth SAWYER : Maggie Rose - Her Birthday Christmas (1952 Harper)
Jack SENDAK : Happy Rain (1956 Harper)
Circus Girl (1957 Harper)
Philip SENDAK : In Grandpa's House (1985 Harper) (1986 Bodley Head)
Isaac Bashevis SINGER : Zlateh the Goat & other Stories (1970 Longmans)
Frank R STOCKTON : The Griffin and the Minor Canon (1963 Holt) (1968 Collins)
The Bee-Man of Orn (1964 Holt) (1967 Collins)
Rudolf TESNOHLIDEK : The Cunning Little Vixen (1985 Farrar Straus Giroux)
Leo TOLSTOY : Nikolenka's Childhood (1963 Pantheon)
E TRIPP : Tin Fiddle (1954 Walck, US) (1954 OUP)
Janice May UDRY : The Moon Jumpers (1959 Harper) (1979 Bodley Head)
Let's Be Enemies (1961 Harper)
Amos VOGEL : How Little Lori Visited Times Square (1963 Harper)
Jan WAHL : Pleasant Fieldmouse (1964 Harper) (1969 Tadworth)
Charlotte ZOLOTOW : Mr Rabbit and the Lovely Present (1962 Harper) (1968 Bodley Head)

READING
Jeffrey Jon Smith : A Conversation with Maurice Sendak (1975 Smith, US)
Brian Alderson : Catalogue of an Exhibition of Pictures by Maurice Sendak (1976 Bodley Head)
Selma G Lanes : The Art of Maurice Sendak (1980 Abrams, US) (1981 Bodley Head)