September 21, 2011

Maurice Sendak Bibliography

Author

    * Kenny's Window (1956)
    * Very Far Away (1957)
    * The Sign on Rosie's Door (1960)
    * The Nutshell Library (1962)
          o Alligators All Around (An Alphabet)
          o Chicken Soup with Rice (A Book of Months)
          o One Was Johnny (A Counting Book)
          o Pierre (A Cautionary Tale)
    * Where the Wild Things Are (1963)
    * Higglety Pigglety Pop!, Or: There Must Be More to Life (1967) ISBN 0-06-028479-X
    * In the Night Kitchen (1970)
    * Ten Little Rabbits: A Counting Book with Mino the Magician (1970)
    * Some Swell Pup or Are You Sure You Want a Dog? (written by Maurice Sendak & Matthew Margolis, and illustrated by Maurice Sendak) (1976)
    * Seven Little Monsters (1977)
    * Fantasy Sketches (1981)
    * Outside Over There (1981)
    * Caldecott and Co: Notes on Books and Pictures (an anthology of essays on children's literature) (1988)
    * We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy (1993)
    * Maurice Sendak's Christmas Mystery (1995) (a box containing a book and a jigsaw puzzle)
    * Mommy? (Sendak's first pop-up book) (2006) ISBN 0-439-88050-5
    * Bumble-Ardy (2011) ISBN-10: 0062051989, ISBN-13: 978-0062051981

Illustrator

    * Atomics for the Millions (by Dr. Maxwell Leigh Eidinoff) (1947)
    * The Wonderful Farm (by Marcel Aymé) (1951)
    * Good Shabbos Everybody (by Robert Garvey) (1951)
    * A Hole is to Dig (written by Ruth Krauss) (1952)
    * A Very Special House (written by Ruth Krauss) (1953)
    * Hurry Home Candy (written by Meindert DeJong) (1953)
    * The Giant Story (written by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers) (1953)
    * The Tin Fiddle (written by Edward Tripp) (1954)
    * The Wheel on the School (written by Meindert DeJong) (1954)
    * Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Farm (written by Betty MacDonald) (1954)
    * Happy Hanukah Everybody (written by Hyman Chanover & Alice Chanover) (1955)
    * Little Cow & the Turtle (written by Meindert DeJong) (1955)
    * Singing Family of the Cumberlands (written by Jean Ritchie) (Oxford University Press, 1955)
    * What Can You Do with a Shoe? (written by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers) (1955 recolored in 1997)
    * Seven Little Stories on Big Subjects (written by Gladys Baker Bond) (1955)
    * I Want to Paint My Bathroom Blue (written by Ruth Krauss) (1956)
    * The Birthday Party (by Ruth Krauss) (1957)
    * Little Bear, written by Else Holmelund Minarik and illustrated by Maurice Sendak (there was also a TV series based on this series of books)
          o Little Bear (1957)
          o Father Bear Comes Home (1959)
          o Little Bear's Friend (1960)
          o Little Bear's Visit (1961)
          o A Kiss for Little Bear (1968)
    * Along Came A Dog (written by Meindert DeJong) (1958)
    * No Fighting, No Biting! (written by Else Holmelund Minarik) (1958)
    * What Do You Say, Dear? (written by Sesyle Joslin) (1958)
    * Seven Tales by H. C. Andersen (translated by Eva Le Gallienne) (1959)
    * The Moon Jumpers (text by Janice May Udry)(1959)
    * Open House For Butterflies (by Ruth Krauss) (1960)
    * Best in Children's Books: Volume 31 (various authors and illustrators: featuring, Windy Wash Day and Other Poems by Dorothy Aldis with illustrations by Maurice Sendak) (1960)
    * Best in Children's Books: Volume 41 (various authors and illustrators: featuring, What the Good-Man Does Is Always Right by Hans Christian Andersen with illustrations by Maurice Sendak) (1961)
    * What Do You Do, Dear? (written by Sesyle Joslin) (1961)
    * The Big Green Book (written by Robert Graves) (1962)
    * Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present (written by Charlotte Zolotow) (1962)
    * The Singing Hill (written by Meindert DeJong) (1962) (Harper Row)
    * Dwarf Long-Nose (written by Wilhelm Hauff, translated by Doris Orgel) (1963)
    * The Griffin and the Minor Canon (written by Frank R. Stockton) (1963)
    * How Little Lori Visited Times Square (written by Amos Vogel) (1963)
    * She Loves Me...She Loves Me Not... (written by Robert Keeshan AKA Captain Kangaroo) (1963)
    * McCall's: August 1964; VOL XCI, No 11 (featuring The Young Crane by Andrejs Upits and Illustrated by Maurice Sendak)
    * The Bee-Man of Orn (written by Frank R. Stockton) (1964)
    * The Animal Family (written by Randall Jarrell) (1965)
    * Hector Protector and As I Went Over the Water: Two Nursery Rhymes (traditional nursery rhymes) (1965)
    * Lullabyes and Night Songs (written by Alec Wilder and edited by William Engvick) (1965)
    * Zlateh The Goat (written by Isaac Bashevis Singer) (1966)
    * The Bat-Poet (written by Randall Jarrell) (1964)
    * A House of Sixty Fathers (written by Meindert De Jong) (1966)
    * The Saturday Evening Post: May 4, 1968; 241st year, issue no. 9 (features Yash The Chimney Sweep by Isaac Bashevis Singer and is illustrated by Maurice Sendak)
    * I'll Be you and You be Me (written by Ruth Krauss) (1973)
    * The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm: Volumes 1 & 2 (Translated by Lore Segal with four tales translated by Randall Jarrell) (1973 both volumes)
    * King Grisly-Beard (by Brothers Grimm) (1973)
    * Pleasant Fieldmouse (by Jan Wahl) (1975)
    * Charlotte and the White Horse (by Ruth Krauss) (1955)
    * Fly by Night (by Randall Jarrell) (1976)
    * The Light Princess (by George MacDonald) (1977)
    * Shadrach (by Meindert Dejong) (1977)
    * The Big Green Book (by Robert Graves) (1978)
    * Nutcracker (written by E.T.A. Hoffmann) (1984)
    * The Love For Three Oranges (The Glyndebourne Version written by Frank Corsaro based on L'Amour des Trois Oranges (by Serge Prokofiev) (1984)
    * Circus Girl (by Jack Sendak) (1985)
    * In Grandpa's House (by Philip Sendak) (1985)
    * The Cunning Little Vixen (by Rudolf Tesnohlidek) (1985)
    * Dear Mili (written by Wilhelm Grimm) (1988)
    * Sing a Song of Popcorn (by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers with various illustrators including Maurice Sendak) (1988)
    * The Big Book for Peace (by various authors and illustrators, cover also by Maurice Sendak) (1990)
    * I Saw Esau (edited by Iona Opie and Peter Opie) (1992)
    * The Golden Key (by George MacDonald) (1992) ISBN 0-374-42590-6
    * We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy: Two Nursery Rhymes with Pictures (traditional nursery rhymes) (Harper Collins) (1993)
    * Pierre: or, The Ambiguities: The Kraken Edition (by Herman Melville) (1995) ISBN 978-0061180095
    * The Miami Giant (written by Arthur Yorinks) (1995)
    * Frank and Joey Go to Work (by Arthur Yorinks also has additional illustrations by Ky Chung (1996)
    * Penthesilea (written by Heinrich von Kleist and Translated and Introduced by Joel Agee) (1998) ISBN 0060956321
    * Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom (by Ursula Nordstrom - Author, Leonard S. Marcus - Editor) ISBN 0-060-23625-6
    * Swine Lake (written by James Marshall) (1999)
    * Brundibár (written by Tony Kushner) (2003)
    * Sarah's Room (written by Doris Orgel) (2003)
    * The Happy Rain (written by Jack Sendak) (2004)
    * Bears! (written by Ruth Krauss) (2005)

Collections

    * The Art Of Maurice Sendak (by Selma G. Lanes) (1980) ISBN 0810916002
    * The Art Of Maurice Sendak: From 1980 to the Present (by Tony Kushner) (2003) ISBN 0810944480
    * Making Mischief: A Maurice Sendak Appreciation (by Gregory Maguire) (2009) ISBN 0061689165

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