![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. In 2003, Sendak received the first Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, an annual international prize for children’s literature established by the Swedish government. ![]() In 1970 he received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Illustration, in 1983 he received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award from the American Library Association, and in 1996 he received a National Medal of Arts in recognition of his contribution to the arts in America. He received the 1964 Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are and is the creator of such classics as In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There, Higglety Pigglety Pop! and Nutshell Library. ![]() Maurice Sendak’s children’s books have sold over 30 million copies and have been translated into more than 40 languages. Author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, whose classic childrens book Where the Wild Things Are became a perennial and award-winning favorite for generations of children, died Tuesday. Above and on the cover: Final drawing of title page for In the Night Kitchen (New York: Harper & Row, 1970), from The Maurice Sendak Collection in Archives and Special Collections at the. If Maurice Sendak hadn’t drawn the bakers three in his book, In the Night Kitchen, as Oliver Hardy -esque characters with bulbous noses and rotund bellies, I might not have missed his Holocaust reference in the Hitlerstaches they’re sporting. ![]()
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