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Beyond The Wild Rumpus: A Guide To Maurice Sendak Books

For many, our memories of reading Maurice Sendak books begin and end with Where the Wild Things Are, but his work extends far beyond the wild rumpus.

Wild Thing: How Maurice Sendak Helped Me Understand My Son

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE was the perfect book at the perfect time for one Rioter and her 3 year-old.

New Maurice Sendak Picture Book Discovered

A previously lost picture book from Maurice Sendak will be published in 2018. Check out the details on this new Maurice Sendak picture book, Presto and Zesto in Limboland.

Happy 200th Birthday, The Nutcracker!

Illustrated versions of The Nutcracker to buy to celebrate its 200th anniversary!

11 Other Items To Locate Now That We “Found” That “Lost” Dr. Seuss Book

We've found the lost Dr. Seuss book. Let's look for these treasures, too!

10 Sexy Celebrities Reading Children’s Books

A year ago Rioter Minh Le imagined five of Hollywood’s sexiest men reading children’s books. Well, imagine no more. Here ...

50 Books to Read Before You’re 11 3/4: Book Riot’s Twenty-Five

I’m just back from six weeks in the UK, where the amazing National Trust has an advertising campaign on the ...

A Six Pack of Bookish COLBERT REPORT Interviews

These 6 'Colbert Report' interviews feature fiction writers Maurice Sendak, Ann Patchett, Junot Diaz, Richard Ford, George Saunders, and Anne Rice.

The Beasts of Childhood: Maurice Sendak in the Southern Wild

This is a guest post by Minh Le. Minh works in early childhood policy and helped design 826DC‘s Museum of Unnatural History. He ...

Five Books to Watch for in February

While researching for this post I made an amazing discovery, one of those times when you stumble upon something you ...