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Remembering Maurice Sendak: Books by the famous author and illustrator Maurice Sendak.
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Title: Bumble-Ardy
Author: Sendak, Maurice
ISBN: 0062051989
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Notes: Bumble-ardy the pig has missed eight birthdays in a row. So for his ninth birthday he has a party without telling his aunt. What will happen when she comes home?

 
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Title: Chicken Soup With Rice: A Book of Months
Author: Sendak, Maurice
Publisher: HarperCollins (1962)
ISBN: 0060255358
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Title: In the Night Kitchen
Author: Sendak, Maurice
ISBN: 0060266686
Format: Paperback
Notes: First published in 1970, "In the Night Kitchen" chronicles a young boy's dream journey through a baker's kitchen where he helps make a cake for the following morning. It received the Caldecott Honor in 1971.

 
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Title: Mommy?
Author: Sendak, Maurice
ISBN: 0439880505
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Notes: In this almost wordless story with only two words: mommy and baby, a very young child stumbles into a house to find his mother; he finds, instead, a collection of monsters, including a vampire, mummy, and werewolf before he finds her. A book with pop-ups on every spread.

 
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Title: Pierre: A Cautionary Tale in Five Chapters and a Prologue
Author: Sendak, Maurice
ISBN: 0060259655
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Notes: No matter what his parents say, Pierre simply does not care. However, an encounter with a hungry lion changes his mind, resulting in "a story with a moral air about Pierre, who learned to care."

 
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Title: Where the Wild Things Are
Author: Sendak, Maurice
ISBN: 0060254939
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Notes: A naughty little boy, sent to bed without his supper, sails to the land of the wild things, where he becomes king.