Maurice Sendak ranks as one of the best known and loved children's book
artists in the USA, and has been awarded both the Hans Christian
Andersen Medal and the Caldecott Medal. This volume picks up where Selma
Lanes' monograph of his work The Art of Maurice Sendak, published in
1980, leaves off, tracing Sendak's life and work from 1980 to 2003.
provides an intimate view of the artist. Kushner not only gives a
chronological overview of Sendak's work, but also allows us to see him
as an accomplished author and artist redefining his legacy, and as a man
coming to terms with himself.