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, ...

Maurice Sendak, the renowned children's author whose books captivated generations of kids and simultaneously scared their parents, has died. He was 83. Sendak passed away on Tuesday from ...

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

NEW YORK (AP) -- 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 ...

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," dies early Tuesday.

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 ...

He had already been proclaimed “the Picasso of children’s books” by Time magazine when Maurice Sendak, then in his 30s, wrote and illustrated “Where the Wild Things Are,” a dark fantasy ...

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 today. He ...

Maurice Sendak didn't think of himself as a children's author, but as an author who told the truth about childhood. The author of "Where the Wild Things Are" died Tuesday, four days after ...

Maurice Sendak, the popular children's book illustrator and writer, died today at age 83 in a Danbury, Conn., hospital after suffering a stroke. Maurice Sendak: 'Where the Wild Things Are' author ...