Maurice Sendak, world-famous for his classic children's book "Where the Wild Things Are," discusses his roots as an artist and his interest in exploring a child's reaction to everyday life. I'm ...

SENDAK: Bush was president, I thought, "Be brave. Tie a bomb to your shirt. Insist on going to the White House. And I wanna have a big hug with the vice president, definitely. And his wife, and the ...

This week on Fresh Air, we're marking the year's end by revisiting some of the most memorable conversations we've had in 2011. This interview was originally broadcast on September 20, 2011.

The author of the famed 1963 children's book Where the Wild Things Are, which was made into a feature-length film in 2009, Maurice Sendak, 83, has long been both celebrated and feared — celebrated as ...

In Ten Little Rabbits, a new posthumous picture book by Maurice Sendak, Mino the Magician waves his wand and, poof, a rabbit appears. Another wave and out springs a second and then a third. By the ...