Born on this day

(Image source: Gale, Cengage Learning.)

Maurice Bernard  Sendak

10 June 1928–8 May 2012

Artist and creator of children‘s books

 

Works:

 

• One Was Johnny: A Counting Books Published 1962
• Where The Wild Things Are Published 1963
• In the Night Kitchen  Published 1970
• Bumble-Ardy  Published 2011
• Mommy? Published 2006
• Alligators All Around  Published  1962
• Chicken Soup With Rice: A Book of Months  Published 1962
• Outside Over There   Published  1981
• My Brother’s Book   Published  2013
• Hector Proctor As I go Over the Water: Two Nursery Rhymes  Published 1965
• Pierre: a Cautionary Tale in Five Chapters and a Prologue  Published 1962

The list above is not complete the works mention are works that he is both the writer and illustrated. If you are interested in  more of his woks please visit your local library.

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Here is a  recently published picture book that reminds me of  Where The Wild Things Are. Please check it out at your local library.

Kings of the Castle by Victoria Turnbull