With that success, he collaborated with Krauss and more than 80 other authors illustrating children’s books. That book was awarded the New York Times Best Illustrated Book in 1952. Through people at FAO, he met Ruth Krauss, the author of A Hole is to Dig, the first children’s book he illustrated. Sendak attended the Art Students League for two years, worked for a comic book syndicate, and then was an FAO Schwartz window display artist. He stayed in the safety of his house using his imagination, drawing, watching Laurel and Hardy, listening to classical music, and reading Disney comics.
He was ill as a child, rarely played outdoors, and had few friends.
Maurice Bernard Sendak was the son of immigrants from Poland. His simple line expresses the joy and sensuality reflecting the inner and outer realities of children’s lives. Although his work sometimes harkens a darkness, it is his joyful sketches reflecting everyday childhood, his marching parade of children across the pages of A Hole is to Dig or iconic neighborhood kids of The Nutshell Library continued the tradition of the Lucy Sprague Mitchel/ Bank Street College of Education “here and now school” of Children’s Literature. His work was pioneering in that he allowed his characters to explore big feelings and frightening circumstances all in the context of a 32-page picture book. He appalled the “gate keepers” of the time. Sendak smashed the perception of childhood as a time of pleasantness, a time of unicorns and rainbows, sweetness and light. When we think of Maurice Sendak, our immediate thoughts go to his ground-breaking Caldecott winning title, Where the Wild Things Are. Kerlan Collection, University of Minnesota. Arsenault lives in Montreal.“ A Hole is to Dig,’ Maurice Sendak, illustrator, Ruth Krauss, author Harper & Brothers, 1952. She has won the prestigious Governor General’s Award for Children’s Literature three times, as well as three New York Times Best Illustrated accolades.
Her many acclaimed books include Just Because, The Honeybee, You Belong Here, and Cloth Lullaby, which received the BolognaRagazzi Award in 2017. Isabelle Arsenault is an internationally renowned children’s book illustrator. She is an Emmy Award–winning visual effects and motion graphics artist and spent a decade as an elementary school librarian. Higgins is a creative storyteller who designs playful experiences around visual literacy and believes the wit of kids' language is the best poetry of all. Circle Under Berry, her first book as both author and illustrator, received two starred reviews. Carter Higgins is the author of many books for young readers, including Everything You Need for a Treehouse, which was an NPR Best Book of the Year, Bikes for Sale, and the chapter book series Audrey L & Audrey W: Best Friends-ish.
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