‘Where the Wild Things Are’ author Maurice Sendak dies at 83

Published on May 8, 2012

Maurice Sendak, author and illustrator of the children's book "Where the Wild Things Are," has died.

Artist-Writer Maira Kalman creates illustrated memoir

By Robert David Jaffee
Published on October 25, 2007

A Super ‘Schmooze’ Move

Published on May 25, 2006

The unforgettable superheroes of comic strips became the stuff of endless Hollywood big-budget sequels. But more often than not, they began in the fevered imaginations of struggling young Jewish guys, whose wildest dreams could be hemmed in only by four panels and black ink.

Not Just for Kids Anymore

By Keren Engelberg
Published on August 5, 2004

Storyopolis, the children's art gallery and bookstore, is kicking out children next week for a grownups-only project, an Artists' Studio Series featuring the not-so-kid-friendly art created by children's book illustrators they work with regularly.

Storybook Chance

By Andrea Adelson
Published on October 31, 2002

The trophy-hunting editor's instructions were explicit: before leaving, take your handbag into the restroom and snag a napkin with a vice presidential seal.

Robin Preiss Glasser, a former ballet dancer forced by injuries into a second career as an illustrator, was first intent on pocketing a job during an August 2001 trip to Washington, D.C. Simon & Schuster's children's unit was hiring an illustrator for "America, a Patriotic Primer," but not without the assent of its author, Lynne Cheney, wife of the vice president, Dick Cheney. Nervously quaking alongside the publishers' emissaries at a lunch "audience" in the vice presidential residence, Glasser managed to establish a rapport with Mrs. Cheney, who consented to the pairing.