![]() "I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth." I don't know," he told Gross in a 2003 conversation. ![]() "Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. His parents kept the information from him, but he picked up bits of information about his missing relatives from his older siblings. He often described himself as having "no childhood" because much of his extended family died in the Holocaust. Sendak was born in Brooklyn to Polish immigrants. In fact, he's a significant writer and artist in literature. Playwright Tony Kushner later called Sendak "one of the most important, if not the most important, writers and artists to ever work in children's literature. ![]() Over the course of his career, his children's books received numerous awards, including the 1964 Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are. John Dugdale/HarperCollins Children's Books ![]() He received a National Book Award, a Caldecott Medal, the Hans Christian Andersen Award for children's book illustration, and the National Medal of Arts. Maurice Sendak wrote and/or illustrated more than 100 books during his career. ![]()
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