He was known in particular for more than a dozen picture books he wrote and illustrated himself, most famously “Where the Wild Things Are,” which was simultaneously genre-breaking and career-making when it was published by Harper & Row in 1963.Īmong the other titles he wrote and illustrated, all from Harper & Row, are “In the Night Kitchen” (1970) and “Outside Over There” (1981), which together with “Where the Wild Things Are” form a trilogy “The Sign on Rosie’s Door” (1960) “Higglety Pigglety Pop!” (1967) and “The Nutshell Library” (1962), a boxed set of four tiny volumes comprising “Alligators All Around, ” “Chicken Soup With Rice,” “One Was Johnny” and “Pierre.” Sendak’s books were essential ingredients of childhood for the generation born after 1960 or thereabouts, and in turn for their children. Roundly praised, intermittently censored and occasionally eaten, Mr.
Sendak, who died at Danbury Hospital, lived nearby in Ridgefield, Conn. The cause was complications of a recent stroke, said Michael di Capua, his longtime editor. Maurice Sendak, widely considered the most important children’s book artist of the 20th century, who wrenched the picture book out of the safe, sanitized world of the nursery and plunged it into the dark, terrifying and hauntingly beautiful recesses of the human psyche, died on Tuesday in Danbury, Conn.
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