A pivotal and groundbreaking children’s book author and artist, Sendak wrote and illustrated over 100 books during a period of 50 years. This symposium explores a small selection of these titles, from the 1963 Where the Wild Things Are to books such as Zlateh the Goat and Brundibar. Selected not only for their significance to Sendak’s career, these titles carry multiple visually layered references to Sendak’s personal history, including his Polish-Jewish roots, his childhood in Brooklyn, and the loss of family in the Holocaust.