The author/illustrator Maurice Sendak was a designer of window displays in a toy store when he was commissioned to illustrate The Wonderful Farm by Marcel Ayme in 1951.
Sendak wrote and illustrated his first children’s book, Kenny’s Window, in 1956.
What was Maurice Sendak’s first book?
by Pamela Landy · Filed Under: Literature
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