When asked, Maurice Sendak insisted that he was not a comics
artist, but an illustrator. However, it''s hard to not notice comics
aspects in works like In the Night Kitchen. The child of the story
is depicted floating from panel to panel as he drifts through the
fantastic dream world of the bakers'' kitchen. Sendak''s use of
multiple panels and integrated hand-lettered text is an interesting
contrast to his more traditional children''s books containing
single-page illustrations such as his wi
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1971 Caldecott Honor BookNotable Children''s Books of
1940--1970 ALABest Books of 1970 SLJOutstanding Children''s
Books of 1970 NYTBest Illustrated Children''s Books of 1970
NYTChildren''s Books of 1970 Library of Congress Carey-Thomas
Award 1971--Honor CitationBrooklyn Art Books for Children 1973,
1975
關於作者：
Maurice Bernard Sendak was born on June 10, 1928 in Brooklyn,
New York, the youngest of three children. His parents were Polish
Jews who had come to the United States before the start of World
War I. His first professional job as an illustrator while he was
still in high school involved adapting the "Mutt and Jeff"
newspaper comic strip to a comic book format. He later worked as a
window-display director for New York''s famous toy store, F.A.O.
Schwartz, while attending night school at the Art Students League.
In 1950, Ursula Nordstrom, children''s book editor at Harper and
Brothers, gave him his first chance to illustrate a children''s
book. His talents were soon in demand. He wrote his first book,
Kenny''s Window, in 1956 and went on to become a prolific
author-illustrator. Sendak is noted for his zany characters and
fantastic themes. In 1964 he won the prestigious Caldecott medal
for his picture book Where The Wild Things Are. Although
occasionally Sendak''s work has provoked controversy, he has become
one of the best known and beloved creators of children''s books and
has received many awards. His works include Chicken Soup with Rice;
In the Night Kitchen; Outside Over There; Higglety Pigglety Pop;
and We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy. In 1970, he was the
first American to receive the Hans Christian Andersen International
Medal and in 1997 he received the National Medal of Arts from
President Clinton. Characters from two of Sendak''s books were the
basis of an animated television special, Really Rosie, which first
aired in 1975. Sendak was also the set designer and lyricist for a
subsequent off-Broadway musical of the same title, with music
composed by Carol King. He was the lyricist, as well as the set and
costume designer, for the original production of an opera based on
Where The Wild Things Are with music by Oliver Knussen in 1980.
In addition, Sendak has designed sets and costumes for performances
of operas by Mozart, Prokofiev, and other classical composers.
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