It features Max, a boy who "rages against his mother for being sent to bed without any supper". Sendak gained international acclaim after writing and illustrating Where the Wild Things Are, edited by Ursula Nordstrom at Harper & Row. His sister Natalie was nine years older and his brother Jack five. Maurice was the youngest of three siblings. His older brother Jack Sendak also became an author of children's books, two of which were illustrated by Maurice in the 1950s. He spent much of the 1950s illustrating children's books written by others before beginning to write his own stories. His illustrations were first published in 1947 in a textbook titled Atomics for the Millions by Maxwell Leigh Eidinoff. One of his first professional commissions was to create window displays for the toy store FAO Schwarz. He decided to become an illustrator after watching Walt Disney's film Fantasia at the age of twelve.
His love of books began when, as a child, he developed health problems and was confined to his bed. Sendak described his childhood as a "terrible situation" due to the death of members of his extended family during the Holocaust which exposed him at a young age to the concept of mortality. Sendak was born in Brooklyn, New York to Polish Jewish immigrant parents named Sadie (née Schindler) and Philip Sendak, a dressmaker. Sendak also wrote works such as In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There, and illustrated many works by other authors including the Little Bear books by Else Holmelund Minarik. Born to Jewish-Polish parents, his childhood was affected by the death of many of his family members during the Holocaust.
He became widely known for his book Where the Wild Things Are, first published in 1963. Maurice Bernard Sendak (/ˈsɛndæk/ J– May 8, 2012) was an American illustrator and writer of children's books.
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