Awards and Honors
Internationally, Sendak received the third biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration in 1970, recognizing his "lasting contribution to children's literature". He received one of two inaugural Astrid Lindgren Memorial Awards in 2003, recognizing his career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense". The citation called him "the modern picture-book's portal figure" and the presentation credited Where the Wild Things Are with "all at once the entire picture-book narrative ... thematically, aesthetically, and psychologically." In the United States he received the American Library Association's Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for career contribution to children's literature in 1983.
- Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are, 1964
- Hans Christian Andersen Award for children's book illustration, 1970
- National Book Award in category Picture Books for Outside Over There, 1982
- Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, 1983
- National Medal of Arts, 1996.
- Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for children's literature, 2003
Sendak was honored in North Hollywood, California, where an elementary school was named after him.
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