SENDAK: Bush was president, I thought, "Be brave. Tie a bomb to your shirt. Insist on going to the White House. And I wanna have a big hug with the vice president, definitely. And his wife, and the ...

Many gathered around the tube for Stephen Colbert’s feisty interview with everyone’s favorite reclusive children’s book author, Maurice Sendak. It’s always a delight when old people weight in on new ...

Sendak was a master. I particularly liked what he said about the Where the Wild Things Are movie when it came out (he was alive at the time). He said, essentially, that no, this was not a word for ...

Very sad news this morning: Maurice Sendak, the author of Where the Wild Things Are, has died at the age of 83, The New York Times reports. The Times' Margalit Fox writes the cause of death was ...