Besides Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak's books include Kenny's Window, Very Far Away, The Sign on Rosie's Door, Nutshell Library (consisting of Chicken Soup with Rice, Alligators All Around, One Was Johnny, and Pierre), Higglety Pigglety Pop ! or There Must Be More to Life, In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There, We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy, and Bumble-Ardy. Where the Wild Things Are was first published in New York in 1963.
Four years later, the wild things came to Britain, where they soon tamed the initial furore from the critics and carried on with their wild rumpus. This book was followed by In the Night Kitchen, a dream fantasy, but, as Sendak said, "a fantasy rooted ten feet deep in reality", and Outside Over There, which The Sunday Times described as "his most outstanding work yet ; entirely real, other worldly and not to be missed."
