Children's

Where the Wild Things Are arrived in November 1963, a forty-page picture book that changed what picture books could do and be. Maurice Sendak, a child of Brooklyn who spent much of his childhood ill in bed drawing comics and watching the world through apartment windows, wrote and illustrated the story of a boy named…

Robert C. O’Brien published Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH in 1971 to relatively little fanfare, and then it won the Newbery Medal the following year and became one of the most widely loved children’s books ever written. O’Brien, whose real name was Robert Leslie Conly, died in 1973 and never saw how far…