Maurice Bernard Sendak was an American writer and illustrator of children's literature who is best known for his book
Where the Wild Things Are, published in 1963. An elementary school (from kindergarten to grade five) in North Hollywood, California is named in his honor.
Sendak was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Polish-Jewish immigrant parents, and decided to become an illustrator after viewing Walt Disney's film
Fantasia at the age of twelve. His illustrations were first published in 1947 in a…
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