Maurice Sendak, Illustrator, Maurice Sendak, Author HarperCollins $18.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-06-028642-2
Now in its second season, HarperCollins's reissue of 22 Sendak classics continues. This time, his collaborations with Ruth Krauss take center stage. In Charlotte and the White Horse, first published in 1955, creamy pages frame Sendak's softly lit
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Arthur Yorinks, Author, Maurice Sendak, Author, Maurice Sendak, Illustrator , illus. by Maurice Sendak, paper engineering by Matthew Reinhart. Scholastic/Michael di Capua $24.95 (12p) ISBN 978-0-439-88050-3
Children who get the better of monsters are a Sendak specialty, from Where the Wild Things Are
to Brundibar
. In this light bite of spine-tingling fare created by Sendak, Yorinks (Hey, Al
) and Reinhart (Encyclopedia Prehistorica
)—sort of a...
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Maurice Sendak, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $18.95 (216p) ISBN 978-0-374-22598-8
This seems to be the year of Maurice Sendak. On the heels of Dear Mili comes this slim anthology of his essays and musings on writing and illustrating for children. It reveals a formidable intelligence, and a remarkable degree of empathy with fellow
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Maurice Sendak, Author, Maurice Sendak, Illustrator HarperCollins $19.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-06-028789-4
HarperCollins's reissue of Maurice Sendak's oeuvre continues with four more titles. Published in 1956, Kenny's Window follows the adventures of a boy living out his fantasies from the confines of his bedroom. His window provides a magic portal as
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Maurice Sendak. HarperCollins/di Capua, $18.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-223489-6
To say "Sendak" is to conjure up busy pages of bossy children, oversize creatures, and small rooms filled with homely furniture. His final work is absent of all of these. Instead, a series of small, jewel-like watercolors shows two brothers, lithe...
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Maurice Sendak, Author, Matthew Margolis, With Farrar Straus Giroux $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-46963-4
When a puppy is abandoned on their doorstep, a boy and girl learn to survive the rigors of ``parenthood'' with the help of a cloaked canine stranger. Love, patience and understanding are the solutions in Sendak's cautionary comic book tale. Ages 3-up
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Arthur Yorinks and Maurice Sendak, illus. by Maurice Sendak. HarperCollins/di Capua, $18.95 (28p) ISBN 978-0-062-64465-7
In 1990, Maurice Sendak created 10 images for the performance of an orchestral suite of Czech nursery rhymes. Several years later, his friend and collaborator Yorinks (Company’s Coming) proposed that they write a story to go with them. They knew...
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Maurice Sendak. HarperCollins, $19.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-264467-1
Originally created as a miniature pamphlet for a museum fundraiser, this previously unpublished treasure from the late Sendak recalls the creator’s Nutshell Library in its gentle-hued simplicity. A counting book format follows a magic act gone pear-
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