Sendak, Maurice
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Sendak, Maurice
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Sendak, Maurice
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American author and illustrator of children's books; Caldecott Medal, 1964; Caldecott Honor, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1971, 1982, 1984.
American author and illustrator children's books.
American author and illustrator of children's books.
Sendak is a noted American writer and illustrator of children's literature. Lanes has written extensively on children's literature and wrote The art of Maurice Sendak (1980).
Maurice Sendak was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1928. Perhaps one of the best-known contemporary author/illustrators of children's literature, Sendak is the recipient of a Caldecott Medal for his classic Where the wild things are.
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Children's literature, American
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World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945
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