Maurice Sendak
Writer
Illustrator
Producer
June 10, 1928 –
May 8, 2012
Credits:
Books:
A Hole is to Dig (1952);
A Kiss for Little Bear (1968); A Very Special House (1953); Along Came a Dog
(1958); Atomics for the Millions (1947); Bears! (2005); Best in Children's
Books: Volume 31 (1960); Best in Children's Books: Volume 41 (1961); Brundibár
(2003); Bumble Ardy (2011); Bumble-Ardy (2011); Caldecott and Co: Notes on
Books and Pictures (1988); Charlotte and the White Horse (1955); Circus Girl
(1957); Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom (1998); Dear Mili (1988);
Dwarf Long-Nose (1960); Fantasy Sketches (1970); Father Bear Comes Home (1959);
Fly by Night (1976); Frank and Joey Eat Lunch (1996); Frank and Joey Go to Work
(1996); Good Shabbos Everybody (1951); Happy Hanukah Everybody (1955); Hector
Protector and As I Went Over the Water: Two Nursery Rhymes (1965); Higglety
Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life (1967); How Little Lori Visited
Times Square (1963); Hurry Home, Candy (1953); I Saw Esau (1992); I Want to
Paint My Bathroom Blue (1956); I'll Be You and You Be Me (1954); In Grandpa's
House (1985); In the Night Kitchen (1970); Kenny's Window (1956); King
Grisly-Beard, by the Brothers Grimm, 1973); Let's Be Enemies (1961/ 1965);
Little Bear (1957); Little Bear's Friend (1960); Little Bear's Visit (1961);
Little Cow & the Turtle (1955); Lullabyes and Night Songs (1965); Making
Mischief: A Maurice Sendak Appreciation (2009); Maurice Sendak: A Celebration
of The Artist and His Work (2013); Maurice Sendak's Christmas Mystery (1995);
McCall's: August 1964, VOL. XCI, No. 11 (1964); Mommy? (2006); Mr. Rabbit and
the Lovely Present (1962); Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Farm (1954); Music album:
Mahler – Symphony No. 3, James Levine conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
/ What The Night Tells Me (1976); My Brother's Book (2013); My Brother's Book
(2013); No Fighting, No Biting! (1958); Nutcracker (1984); Open House for
Butterflies (1960); Outside Over There (1981); Penthesilea (1998); Pierre, or
The Ambiguities: The Kraken Edition (1995); Pincus and the Pig: A Klezmer Tale
(2004); Pleasant Fieldmouse (1975); Presto and Zesto in Limboland (2018);
Sarah's Room (2003); Seven Little Monsters (1977); Seven Little Stories on Big
Subjects (1955); Seven Tales by H. C. Andersen (1959); Shadrach (1953); She
Loves Me ... She Loves Me Not ... (1963); Sing a Song of Popcorn: Every Child's
Book of Poems (1988); Singing Family of the Cumberlands (1955 / 1980); Some
Swell Pup or Are You Sure You Want a Dog? (1976); Somebody Else's Nut Tree and
Other Tales from Children (1971); Swine Lake (1999); Ten Little Rabbits (2025);
Ten Little Rabbits: A Counting Book with Mino the Magician (1970); The Animal
Family (1965); The Art of Maurice Sendak (1980); The Art of Maurice Sendak:
From 1980 to the Present (2003); The Bat-Poet (1967); The Bee-Man of Orn
(1964); The Big Book for Peace (1990); The Big Green Book (1962); The Big Green
Book (1978); The Birthday Party (1957); The Cunning Little Vixen (1985); The
Giant Story (1953); The Golden Key (1967 / 1992); The Griffin and the Minor
Canon (1963); The Happy Rain (2004); The House of Sixty Fathers (1956); The
Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm: Volumes 1 & 2 (1973); The Light
Princess (1969); The Love for Three Oranges (1984); The Miami Giant (1995); The
Moon Jumpers (1959); The Mother Goose Collection (1985); The Nutshell Library:
Alligators All Around / Chicken Soup with Rice / One Was Johnny / Pierre
(1962); The Saturday Evening Post: May 4, 1968, 241st year, Issue no. 9 / The
Chimney Sweep (1968); The Sign on Rosie's Door (1960); The Singing Hill (1962);
The Tin Fiddle (1954); The Wheel on the School (1954); The Wonderful Farm
(1951); Very Far Away (1957); We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy: Two
Nursery Rhymes with Pictures (1993); What Can You Do with a Shoe? (1955 /
1997); What Do You Do, Dear? (1958 / 1961); Where the Wild Things Are (1963);
You Can't Get There From Here (1957); Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories (1966).
Movies and television:
2nd House (1974); American Masters (1987);
Angels in America (2003); Chicken Soup with Rice (1975); Far Out Isn't Far
Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story (2012); Galaxie (1966); George and Martha
(1999–2000); Great Performances (1994); Hansel and Gretel (1998 / 1999); HBO
First Look (2009); Her (2013); Higglety Pigglety Pop! (1986); Higglety Pigglety
Pop! or There Must Be More to Life (2010); In the Night Kitchen (1987);
Jackanory (1971); Labyrinth (1986); Last Dance (2002); L'Enfant et les
Sortilèges (1987); L'heure espagnole (1987); Little Bear (1995–2001); Little
Bear: Family Tales (1997); Little Bear: Feel Better, Little Bear (2003); Little
Bear: Friends (1999); Little Bear: Goodnight Little Bear (1998); Little Bear:
Little Artist Bear (2002); Little Bear: Little Goblin Bear (1999); Little Bear:
Little Sherlock Bear (2001); Little Bear: Meet Little Bear (1997); Little Bear:
Parties & Picnics (1998); Little Bear: Rainy Day Tales (2005); Little Bear:
Snacktime Tales (2002); Live from Lincoln Center (1983); Lois Gibbs and the
Love Canal (1982); Northern Exposure (1991); Nutcracker (1986); Read to Me,
Heidi (2024); Really Rosie (1975); Return to Oz (1985); Scholastic Jumbo Box of
Storybook Classics - Volume 1 (2002); Scholastic Storybook Treasures: Where the
Wild Things Are... And 5 More Stories by Maurice Sendak (2008); Scholastic
Treasury of 100 Storybook Classics / Segment: Where the Wild Things Are (2007);
Seasons of the Heart (1994); Sendak (1986); Seven Little Monsters (2000–2003);
Simple Gifts / Segment: Prologue (1978); Tell Them Anything You Want: A
Portrait of Maurice Sendak (2009); The Book Programme (1976); The Colbert
Report (2012); The Dresden Dolls: In Paradise (2005); The Little Bear Movie
(2000); The Love for Three Oranges (1982); The Pixar Story (2007); The Secret
World of the Very Young (1984); The World of Maurice Sendak (1986); Today
(1975); Where the Wild Things Are (1975 / 1984 / 2009); Zlateh the Goat (1966).
