Writings
for Children; Self-Illustrated
* Kenny's Window, Harper (New York, NY), 1956, reprinted, 2004.
* Very Far Away, Harper (New York, NY), 1957.
* The Acrobat, privately printed, 1959.
* The Sign on Rosie's Door, Harper (New York, NY), 1960.
* Nutshell Library (verse; contains Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months, One Was Johnny: A Counting Book, Alligators All Around: An Alphabet, and Pierre: A Cautionary Tale), Harper (New York, NY), 1962.
* Where the Wild Things Are, Harper (New York, NY), 1963, 25th anniversary edition, 1988.
* Hector Protector, and As I Went over the Water: Two Nursery Rhymes, Harper (New York, NY), 1965.
* Higglety Pigglety Pop!; or, There Must Be More to Life, Harper (New York, NY), 1967.
* In the Night Kitchen, Harper (New York, NY), 1970.
* Ten Little Rabbits: A Counting Book with Mino the Magician, Philip H. Rosenbach, 1970.
* Pictures by Maurice Sendak, Harper (New York, NY), 1971.
* Maurice Sendak's Really Rosie (based on the television program of the same title; also see below), Harper (New York, NY), 1975.
* (With Matthew Margolis) Some Swell Pup; or, Are You Sure You Want a Dog?, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1976.
* Seven Little Monsters (verse), Harper (New York, NY), 1977.
* Outside over There, Harper (New York, NY), 1981.
* We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy: Two Nursery Rhymes with Pictures, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1993.
illustrator
* M.L. Eidinoff and Hyman Ruchlis, Atomics for the Millions (for adults), McGraw (New York, NY), 1947.
* Robert Garvey, Good Shabbos, Everybody!, United Synagogue Commission on Jewish Education, 1951.
* Marcel Ayme, The Wonderful Farm, Harper (New York, NY), 1951.
* Ruth Krauss, A Hole Is to Dig: A First Book of Definitions, Harper (New York, NY), 1952.
* Ruth Sawyer, Maggie Rose: Her Birthday Christmas, Harper (New York, NY), 1952.
* Beatrice S. de Regniers, The Giant Story, Harper (New York, NY), 1953.
* Meindert De Jong, Hurry Home, Candy, Harper (New York, NY), 1953.
* Meindert De Jong, Shadrach, Harper (New York, NY), 1953.
* Ruth Krauss, A Very Special House, Harper (New York, NY), 1953.
* Hyman Chanover, Happy Hanukkah, Everybody, United Synagogue Commission on Jewish Education, 1954.
* Ruth Krauss, I'll Be You and You Be Me, Harper (New York, NY), 1954.
* Edward Tripp, The Tin Fiddle, Oxford University Press (Oxford, England), 1954.
* Marcel Ayme, Magic Pictures, Harper (New York, NY), 1954.
* Betty MacDonald, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's Farm, Lippincott (Philadelphia, PA), 1954.
* Meindert De Jong, The Wheel on the School, Harper (New York, NY), 1954.
* Ruth Krauss, Charlotte and the White Horse, Harper (New York, NY), 1955.
* Meindert De Jong, The Little Cow and the Turtle, Harper (New York, NY), 1955.
* Jean Ritchie, Singing Family of the Cumberlands, Oxford University Press (Oxford, England), 1955.
* Beatrice S. de Regniers, What Can You Do with a Shoe?, Harper (New York, NY), 1955, reprinted, Aladdin (New York, NY), 2001.
* Jack Sendak (brother), Happy Rain, Harper (New York, NY), 1956.
* Meindert De Jong, The House of Sixty Fathers, Harper (New York, NY), 1956.
* Ruth Krauss, I Want to Paint My Bathroom Blue, Harper (New York, NY), 1956.
* Ruth Krauss, Birthday Party, Harper (New York, NY), 1957.
* Jack Sendak, Circus Girl, Harper (New York, NY), 1957.
* Ogden Nash, You Can't Get There from Here, Little, Brown (Boston, MA), 1957.
* Else Minarik, Little Bear, Harper (New York, NY), 1957.
* Meindert De Jong, Along Came a Dog, Harper (New York, NY), 1958.
* Else Minarik, No Fighting, No Biting!, Harper (New York, NY), 1958.
* Ruth Krauss, Somebody Else's Nut Tree, Harper (New York, NY), 1958.
* Sesyle Joslyn, What Do You Say, Dear?: A Book of Manners for All Occasions, W.R. Scott (New York, NY), 1958.
* Else Minarik, Father Bear Comes Home, Harper (New York, NY), 1959.
* Janice Udry, The Moon Jumpers, Harper (New York, NY), 1959.
* Hans Christian Andersen, Seven Tales, Harper (New York, NY), 1959.
* Wilhelm Hauff, Dwarf Long-Nose, Random House (New York, NY), 1960.
* Else Minarik, Little Bear's Friend, Harper (New York, NY), 1960.
* Ruth Krauss, Open House for Butterflies, Harper (New York, NY), 1960.
* Janice Udry, Let's Be Enemies, Harper (New York, NY), 1961.
* Clemens Brentano, The Tale of Gockel, Hinkel, and Gackeliah, Random House (New York, NY), 1961.
* Else Minarik, Little Bear's Visit, Harper (New York, NY), 1961.
* Sesyle Joslyn, What Do You Do, Dear?, Young Scott Books, 1961.
* Clemens Brentano, Schoolmaster Whackwell's Wonderful Sons, Random House (New York, NY), 1962.
* Charlotte Zolotow, Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present, Harper (New York, NY), 1962.
* Meindert De Jong, The Singing Hill, Harper (New York, NY), 1962.
* Leo Tolstoy, Nikolenka's Childhood, Harper (New York, NY), 1963.
* Robert Keeshan, She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not, Harper (New York, NY), 1963.
* Randall Jarrell, The Bat-Poet, Collier (New York, NY), 1964.
* Amos Vogel, How Little Lori Visited Times Square, Harper (New York, NY), 1964.
* Jan Wahl, Pleasant Fieldmouse, Harper (New York, NY), 1964.
* William Engvick, editor, Lullabies and Night Songs, Pantheon (New York, NY), 1965.
* Randall Jarrell, The Animal Family, Pantheon (New York, NY), 1965.
* Isaac Bashevis Singer, Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories, Harper (New York, NY), 1966.
* George Macdonald, The Golden Key, Harper (New York, NY), 1967, 2nd edition, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1984.
* William Blake, Poems from William Blake's Songs of Innocence, Bodley Head (London, England), 1967.
* Robert Graves, The Big Green Book, Crowell (New York, NY), 1968.
* Frank Stockton, Griffin and the Minor Canon, Collins (New York, NY), 1968.
* Else Minarik, A Kiss for Little Bear, Harper (New York, NY), 1968.
* George Macdonald, The Light Princess, Bodley Head (London, England), 1969, revised edition, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1969.
* Frank Stockton, The Bee-Man of Orn, Holt (New York, NY), 1971.
* Doris Orgel, Sarah's Room, Bodley Head (London, England), 1971.
* (And selector with Lore Segal) Jakob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, The Juniper Tree, and Other Tales from Grimm, translated by Segal and Randall Jarrell, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1973, revised edition, 2003.
* Marie Catherine Jumelle de Berneville Aulnoy, Fortunia: A Tale by Mme. D'Aulnoy, translated by Richard Schaubeck, Frank Hallman, 1974.
* Randall Jarrell, Fly by Night, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1976.
* Jakob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, King Grisly-Beard: A Tale from the Brothers Grimm, Harper (New York, NY), 1978.
* E.T.A. Hoffman, The Nutcracker, translated by Ralph Manheim, Crown (New York, NY), 1984, reprinted, 2001.
* Philip Sendak (father), In Grandpa's House, translated and adapted by Seymour Barofsky, Harper (New York, NY), 1985.
* Dear Mili: An Old Tale by Wilhelm Grimm, based on a letter by Wilhelm Grimm translated by Manheim, Michael Di Capua Books/Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1988, reprinted, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2004.
* (With Garth Williams) Jerome Griswold, The Children's Books of Randall Jarrell, University of Georgia Press (Athens, GA), 1988.
* Lloyd Alexander, and others, The Big Book for Peace, edited by Marilyn Sachs and others, Dutton (New York, NY), 1990.
* Iona Opie, I Saw Esau, Candlewick Press (Cambridge, MA), 1992.
* Marcel Ayme, The Wonderful Farm, translated by Norman Denny, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1994.
* Herman Melville, Pierre, or, The Ambiguities, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1995.
* Arthur Yorinks, The Miami Giant, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1995.
* Heinrich von Kleist, Penthesilea: A Tragic Drama, translated and introduced by Joel Agee, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1998.
* James Marshall, Swine Lake, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1999.
* Else Minarik, Present from Little Bear, edited by Mark McVeigh, Harper Festival (New York, NY), 2002.
* Else Minarik, Little Bear and the Missing Pie, edited by Mark McVeigh, Harper Festival (New York, NY), 2002.
* Else Minarik, Little Bear's Egg, edited by Mark McVeigh, Harper Festival (New York, NY), 2002.
* Else Minarik, Little Bear's Flying Flapjack, edited by Mark McVeigh, Harper Festival (New York, NY), 2002.
* Else Minarik, Little Bear's Wagon, edited by Mark McVeigh, Harper Festival (New York, NY), 2002.
* Tony Kushner, Brundibar, Hyperion (New York, NY), 2003.
* Ruth Krauss, Bears, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2005.
* Also illustrator of Little Stories by Gladys B. Bond, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith.
other
* Fantasy Sketches (exhibition catalogue), Philip H. Rosenbach, 1970.
* (Editor and author of introduction) Maxfield Parrish Poster Book, Crown (New York, NY), 1974.
* (Author of appreciation) The Publishing Archive of Lothar Meggendorfer, Schiller, 1975.
* (And director and lyricist) Really Rosie, Starring the Nutshell Kids (script for animated television special; based on characters from The Nutshell Library and The Sign on Rosie's Door; broadcast on Columbia Broadcasting System, 1975; also see below), music composed and performed by Carol King, Harper (New York, NY), 1975.
* (Editor) The Disney Poster Book, illustrated by Walt Disney Studios, Harper (New York, NY), 1977.
* (Lyricist and set designer) Really Rosie (musical play; revised from the television special of the same title), music by Carol King, produced in London and Washington, DC, 1978, produced off-Broadway, 1980.
* (Lyricist and set and costume designer) Where the Wild Things Are (opera; based on his book of the same title), music by Oliver Knussen, produced in Belgium, 1980, produced at New York, NY, 1984.
* (Author of introduction) Jean de Brunhoff, Babar's Anniversary Album, Random House (New York, NY), 1981.
* Collection of Books, Posters and Original Drawings, Schiller, 1984.
* (With Frank Corsaro) The Love for Three Oranges: The Glyndebourne Version (dialogue), Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1984.
* (Librettist and set and costume designer) Higglety, Pigglety, Pop! (opera), produced in England, 1984.
* (Author of commentary) Jonathan Cott, editor, Master-works of Children's Literature, Volume 7, Chelsea House, 1984.
* (Photographer) Rudolf Tesnohlidek, The Cunning Little Vixen, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1985.
* (Author of introduction) Jonathan Cott, Victorian Color Picture Books, Stonehill Publishing/Chelsea House, 1985.
* Posters, Harmony Books (New York, NY), 1986.
* (Author of foreword) John Canemaker, Winsor McCay: His Life and Art, Abbeville Press (New York, NY), 1987.
* Caldecott & Co.: Notes on Books & Pictures, Michael Di Capua Books/Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1988.
* (Author of introduction) Mickey Mouse Movie Stories, Abrams (New York, NY), 1988.
* Maurice Sendak Book and Poster Package: Wild Things, Harper (New York, NY), 1991.
* (Set and costume designer) Frank and Joey Go to Work, Harper Festival (New York, NY), 1996.
* (Author of narration; with the Shirim Klezmer Orchestra) Pincus and the Pig: A Klezmer Tale (CD-ROM), Tzakik, 2004.
* Contributor of illustrations to McCall's and Ladies' Home Journal. Contributor to Worlds of Childhood: The Art and Craft of Writing for Children, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1998.
* Sendak's books have been translated into numerous languages.
* Sendak's manuscripts are collected at the Museum of the Philip H. and A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, and the Kerlan Collection, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.