Maurice Sendak comes up with some creative and hilarious verses to teach children the letters of the alphabet such as “A: Alligators All Around” and “D: Doing Dishes,” as he simply uses two words to describe each letter of the alphabet, making the book easier for smaller children to understand the concept of the letters of the alphabet. Maurice Sendak had out done himself in this clever book about learning the alphabet through creative phrases.

“Alligators All Around” is a brilliant book about teaching the alphabet in a creative way that children will love for many years. He died due to complications from a recent stroke on at the age of 83.“Alligators All Around” is apart of the popular Nutshell Library by Maurice Sendak and it details a family of alligators showing the audience about learning the alphabet through various humorous phrases. In addition, he has designed sets and costumes for performances of operas by Mozart, Prokofiev, and other classical composers. He was the lyricist, as well as the set and costume designer, for the original production of an opera based on Where The Wild Things Are in 1980. He was also the set designer and lyricist for a subsequent off-Broadway musical of the same title. Characters from two of his books were the basis of an animated television special, Really Rosie, which first aired in 1975. He received numerous awards including the Caldecott medal for Where The Wild Things Are in 1964, the Hans Christian Andersen International Medal in 1970, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, and the National Medal of Arts in 1996. His works include Chicken Soup with Rice In the Night Kitchen Outside Over There Higglety Pigglety Pop The Sign on Rosie's Door We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy Brundibar Bumble Ardy and My Brother's Book. He wrote his first children's book Kenny's Window in 1956 and went on to become a prolific author-illustrator. In 1950, he illustrated his first children's book The Wonderful Farm by Marcel Aymé. Schwartz while attending night school at the Art Students League.

He later worked as a window-display director for F.A.O. His first professional illustrations were for a physics textbook, Atomics for the Millions, published in 1947. While in high school, he worked part time as an illustrator for All-American Comics adapting the Mutt and Jeff newspaper comic strip to a comic book format. Maurice Sendak was born on Jin Brooklyn, New York.

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