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