It's strangely easy to gloss over the drawings in "Where the Wild Things Are," written and illustrated by the great Maurice Sendak. The words, said aloud at bedtime, paint pictures glorious enough.

20 million copies and counting; Just 338 words%2C plus vivid illustrations; What ever happened to Max%2C the wild boy in the wolf suit%3F; Fifty years ago, when Maurice Sendak's picture book ...

View full size HarperCollins "Where the Wild Things Are" author died at the age 83. NEW YORK — Maurice Sendak didn’t think of himself as a children’s author, ...

Entertainment; Maurice Sendak on the origins of 'Where the Wild Things Are' and more. Published: ; May. 08, 2012, 2:48 p.m.

Maurice Sendak with a character from his book Where the Wild Things Are. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images But there’s a darker aspect to Sendak’s childhood recollections.

In a way, I have been writing about kids like Hansel and Gretel for much of my life,” King says of the audiobook, out this ...

Maurice Sendak, the children’s book author and illustrator who saw the sometimes-dark side of childhood in books like “Where the Wild Things Are” and “In the Night Kitchen,” died early ...

Now, the children’s classic and its author and illustrator is at the heart of “Wild Things Are Happening: The Art of Maurice Sendak,” an exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center in West L ...

Maurice Sendak could have been celebrating. After years of working as a writer and illustrator, he had shot to superstardom in 1964 with “Where the Wild Things Are.” ...

Sendak began collecting in the late 1950s. After the huge commercial successes of “Where the Wild Things Are,” published in 1963, and “In the Night Kitchen,” in 1970, he could afford to ...