From Seuss To Sendak To Sis

 
 
Maurice Sendak
 

The following books are required reading; any illustrated English language edition is acceptable, although this list specifies first American and English editions, in order to indicate date of original publication. The list has been divided into books Sendak both wrote and illustrated, and books others wrote and Sendak illustrated.

BOOK BY 

The Nutshell Library (New York: Harper & Row, 1962; London & Glasgow: Collins, 1964)--
includes Alligators All Around, Chicken Soup with Rice, One Was Johnny, Pierre.

Where the Wild Things Are (New York: Harper & Row, 1963; London: Bodley Head, 1967)

Hector Protector And As I Went Over the Water (New York: Harper & Row, 1965)

In the Night Kitchen (New York: Harper & Row, 1970)

Some Swell Pup: or Are You Sure You Want a Dog?, by Sendak and Matthew Margolis, 
illustrated by Sendak (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976)

Outside Over There (New York: Harper & Row, 1981; London: Bodley Head, 1981)

We're All In The Dumps With Jack and Guy (New York: HarperCollins, 1993)

BOOKS ILLUSTRATED

Ruth Krauss, A Hole Is to Dig (New York: Harper, 1952)

Robert Graves, The Big Green Book (New York: Crowell-Collier, 1962)

Randall Jarrell, The Bat-Poet (New York: Macmillan, 1964)

Randall Jarrell, The Animal Family (New York: Pantheon, 1965)

Brothers Grimm, The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm, translated by Lore Segal 
and Randall Jarrell (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973)

E. T. A. Hoffmann, The Nutcracker, translated by Ralph Manheim (New York: Crown, 1984)

Brothers Grimm. Dear Mili (New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1988)