Books
BOOKS WRITTEN & ILLUSTRATED
BY MAURICE SENDAK
Kenny’s Window (Harper & Brothers, 1956)
Very Far Away (Harper & Brothers, 1957)
The Sign on Rosie’s Door (Harper & Brothers, 1960)
Nutshell Library, including Pierre, Chicken Soup with Rice, Alligators All Around, One Was Johnny (Harper & Row, 1962)
Where the Wild Things Are (Harper & Row, 1963)
Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life (Harper & Row, 1967)
In the Night Kitchen (Harper & Row, 1970)
Really Rosie, starring the Nutshell Kids, music by Carole King (Harper & Row, 1975)
Some Swell Pup, or Are You Sure You Want a Dog?, story by Maurice Sendak and Matthew Margolis (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976)
Seven Little Monsters (Harper & Row,1977)
Outside Over There (Harper & Row, 1981)
Caldecott & Co. (Michael di Capua Books / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988)
We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy (Michael di Capua Books/ HarperCollins, 1993)
Bumble-Ardy (Michael di Capua Books / HarperCollins, 2011)
My Brother’s Book (Michael di Capua Books / HarperCollins, 2013)
BOOKS ILLUSTRATED BY MAURICE SENDAK
Atomics for the Millions by Maxwell Leigh Eidinoff (Harper & Brothers, 1947)
The Wonderful Farm by Marcel Aymé (Harper & Row, 1951)
Good Shabbos, Everybody by Robert Garvey (United Synagogue Commission on Jewish Education, 1951) "
Maggie Rose: Her Birthday Christmas by Ruth Sawyer (Harper & Brothers, 1952)
A Hole Is To Dig by Ruth Krauss (Harper & Brothers, 1952)
Hurry Home, Candy by Meindert DeJong (Harper & Brothers, 1953)
The Giant Story by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers (Harper & Brothers, 1953)
A Very Special House by Ruth Krauss (Harper & Brothers, 1953)
Shadrach by Meindert DeJong (Harper & Brothers, 1953)
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Farm by Betty MacDonald (Harper & Brothers, 1954)
I’ll Be You and You Be Me by Ruth Krauss (Harper & Brothers, 1954)
The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong (Harper & Brothers, 1954)
The Magic Pictures by Marcel Ayme (Harper & Brothers, 1954)
The Tin Fiddle by Edward Tripp (Oxford University Press, 1954)
Little Cow & the Turtle by Meindert DeJong (Harper & Brothers, 1955)
Charlotte and the White Horse by Ruth Krauss (Harper & Brothers, 1955)
Happy Hannukah Everybody by Hyman And Alice ((United Synagogue Commission on Jewish Education, 1955)
Singing Family of the Cumberlands by Jean Ritchie (University Press of Kentucky, 1955)
I Want to Paint My Bathroom Blue by Ruth Krauss (Harper & Brothers, 1956)
The Happy Rain by Jack Sendak (Harper & Brothers, 1956)
The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert DeJong (Harper & Brothers, 1956)
The Birthday Party by Ruth Krauss (Harper & Brothers, 1957)
You Can't Get There From Here by Ogden Nash (Little, Brown and Company, 1957)
Circus Girl by Jack Sendak (Harper & Brothers, 1957)
Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik (Harper & Brothers, 1957)
Along Came a Dog by Meindert DeJong (Harper & Brothers, 1958)
No Fighting, No Biting by Else Holmelund Minarik (Harper & Brothers, 1958)
Somebody Else’s Nut Tree and Other Tales from Children by Ruth Krauss (Harper & Brothers, 1958)
What Do You Say, Dear? by Sesyle Joslin (Young Scott Books, 1958)
Seven Tales by H. C. Andersen translated by Eva Le Gallienne (Harper & Brothers, 1959)
Father Bear Comes Home by Else Holmelund Minarik (Harper & Brothers, 1959)
The Moon Jumpers by Janice May Udry (Harper & Brothers, 1959)
Dwarf Long Nose by Wilhelm Hauff, translated by Doris Orgel (Random House, 1960)
Little Bear’s Friend by Else Holmelund Minarik (Harper & Brothers, 1960)
Open House for Butterflies by Ruth Krauss (Harper & Brothers, 1960)
Little Bear’s Visit by Else Holmelund Minarik (Harper & Brothers, 1961)
What Do You Do, Dear? by Sesyle Joslin (Young Scott Books, 1961)
The Tale of Gockel, Hinkel & Gackeliah by Clemens Brentano trans:Doris Orgel (Random House,1961)
Schoolmaster Whackwell’s Wonderful Sons by Clemens Brentano, retold by Doris Orgel (Random House, 1962)
Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present by Charlotte Zolotow (Harper & Row, 1962)
The Big Green Book by Robert Graves (The Crowell-Collier Press, 1962)
The Singing Hill by Meindert DeJong (Harper & Row, 1962)
She Loves Me ... She Loves Me Not ... by Robert Keeshan (Harper & Row, 1963)
How Little Lori Visited Times Square by Amos Vogel (Harper & Row, 1963)
Nikolenka’s Childhood by Leo Tolstoy (Pantheon, 1963)
Sarah’s Room by Doris Orgel (Harper & Row, 1963)
The Griffin and the Minor Cannon by Frank R. Stockton (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1963)
Pleasant Fieldmouse by Jan Wahl (Harper & Row, 1964)
The Bat-Poet by Randall Jarrell (Macmillan, 1964)
The Bee Man of Orn by Frank R. Stockton (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1964)
Hector Protector and As I Went Over the Water: Two Nursery Rhymes traditional nursery rhymes (Harper & Row, 1965)
The Animal Family by Randall Jarrell (Pantheon, 1965)
Lullabies and Night Songs, edited by William Engvick, music by Alec Wilder (Harper & Row, 1965)
Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer, translated by the author and Elizabeth Shub (Harper & Row, 1966)
The Golden Key by George MacDonald (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1967)
A Kiss for Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik (Harper & Row, 1968)
The Light Princess by George MacDonald (Farrar, Straus & Giroux,1969)
King Grisly-Beard, from the Brothers Grimm, translated by Edgar Taylor (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973)
The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm, selected by Lore Segal and Maurice Sendak, translated by Lore Segal with four tales translated by Randall Jarrell (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973)
Fly By Night by Randall Jarrell (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976)
Nutcracker by E. T. A. Hoffman, translated by Ralph Manheim (Crown, 1984)
The Love for Three Oranges by Frank Corsaro (The Bodley Head, 1984)
In Grandpa’s House by Philip Sendak (Harper & Row, 1985)
The Cunning Little Vixen by Rudolf Tesnohlidek, translated by Tatiana Firkusny, Maritza Morgan, and Robert T. Jones (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985)
Dear Mili by Wilhelm Grimm, translated by Ralph Manheim (Michael di Capua Books / Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1988)
Seven Tales by Hans Christian Anderson (HarperCollins, 1990)
I Saw Esau, edited by Iona and Peter Opie (Walker Books, 1992)
Pierre, or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville (HarperCollins, 1995)
The Miami Giant by Arthur Yorinks (Michael di Capua Books / HarperCollins, 1995)
Frank and Joey Eat Lunch by Arthur Yorinks (HarperCollins, 1996)
Frank and Joey Go to Work by Arthur Yorinks (HarperCollins, 1996)
What Can You Do with a Shoe? by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers( McElderry, 1955, re-colored 1997)
Penthesilea by Heinrich von Kleist, translated by Joel Agee (Michael di Capua Books / HarperCollins, 1998)
Swine Lake by James Marshall (Michael di Capua Books / HarperCollins, 1999)
Bumble Ardy by Maurice Sendak, (HarperCollins, 2000)
Brundibar by Tony Kushner (Michael di Capua Books / Hyperion Books for Children, 2003)
Bears by Ruth Krauss (Michael di Capua Books / HarperCollins, 2005)
Mommy? scenario by Arthur Yorinks, paper engineering by Matthew Reinhart (Michael di Capua Books / Scholastic, 2006)
Presto and Zesto in Limboland by Arthur Yorinks and Maurice Sendak (HarperCollins, 2018)
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