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.
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