![]() In 2003, Sendak received the first Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, an annual international prize for children’s literature established by the Swedish government. In 1970 he received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Illustration, in 1983 he received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award from the American Library Association, and in 1996 he received a National Medal of Arts in recognition of his contribution to the arts in America. The astute descriptions of the bear and the lynx are a result of the couple’s frequent visits to the Washington Zoo while Jarrell was a poetry consultant at the Library of Congress. ![]() He received the 1964 Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are and is the creator of such classics as In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There, Higglety Pigglety Pop!, and Nutshell Library. Maurice Sendak’s children’s books have sold over 30 million copies and have been translated into more than 40 languages. Here in The Bat-Poet are the bat's own poems and the bat's own world: the owl who almost eats him the mockingbird whose irritable genius almost overpowers him the chipmunk who loves his poems, and the bats who can't make beads or tails of them the. ![]() ![]() His children's book The Animal Family was named a Newbery Honor Book, and his translation of The Three Sisters was produced by The Actors Studio Theatre. The Bat-Poet is the story of how he tried to make the other bats see the world his way. ![]() Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) received the National Book Award for his book of poems The Woman at the Washington Zoo. ![]()
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