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==Awards and honors==

Internationally, Sendak received the third biennial [[Hans Christian Andersen Award]] for Illustration in 1970, recognizing his "lasting contribution to children's literature".<ref name=andersen/><ref name=ibby-sendak/> He received one of two inaugural [[Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award]]s in 2003, recognizing his career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense". The citation called him "the modern picture-book's portal figure" and the presentation credited ''Where the Wild Things Are'' with "all at once [revolutionizing] the entire picture-book narrative ... thematically, aesthetically, and psychologically."<ref name=alma2003>
[http://www.alma.se/en/Award-winners/2003-Maurice-Sendak/ "2003: Maurice Sendak: Researches Secret Recesses of Childhood"]. The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Retrieved August 13, 2012.</ref>
In the U.S. he received the [[Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal]] from the professional children's librarians in 1983, recognizing his "substantial and lasting contributions to children's literature". At the time it was awarded every three years.<ref name=wilder>
[http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/wildermedal/wilderpast "Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, Past winners"]. [[Association for Library Service to Children]] ('''ALSC'''). American Library Association ('''ALA''').<br> 
[http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/wildermedal/wilderabout "About the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award"]. ALSC. ALA. Retrieved March 9, 2013.</ref> 
Only Sendak and the writer Katherine Paterson have won all three of these premier awards.<!--no other Americans have won both international awards-->

* [[Caldecott Medal]] from the ALA as illustrator of "the most distinguished American picture book for children", ''Where the Wild Things Are'', 1964 (Sendak was also one of the Caldecott runners-up seven times from 1954 to 1982, more than any other illustrator, although some have won [[Caldecott Medal#Multiple awards|multiple Medals]])<ref name=caldecott>
[http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/caldecottmedal/caldecotthonors/caldecottmedal "Caldecott Medal & Honor Books, 1938–Present"]. ALSC. ALA.<br>
[http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/caldecottmedal/aboutcaldecott/aboutcaldecott "The Randolph Caldecott Medal"]. ALSC. ALA. Retrieved May 5, 2013.</ref>
* Hans Christian Andersen Award for children's book illustration, 1970<ref name=andersen>
[http://www.ibby.org/index.php?id=273 "Hans Christian Andersen Awards"]. [[International Board on Books for Young People]] ('''IBBY'''). Retrieved June 12, 2013.</ref><ref name=ibby-sendak>
[http://www.literature.at/viewer.alo?objid=14769&viewmode=fullscreen&rotate=&scale=3.33&page=39 "Maurice Sendak"] (pp. 44–45, by Sus Rostrup).<br> <!--  full-page profile not used; Introduction p. 13 identifies those written by Rostrup -->
''The Hans Christian Andersen Awards, 1956–2002''. IBBY. [[Gyldendal]]. 2002. Hosted by [[Austrian Literature Online]]. Retrieved July 23, 2013.</ref>
* [[National Book Award for Young People's Literature#Children's Books, 1980 to 1983|National Book Award in category Picture Books]]<!--NBA category 1982 and 1983 only--> for ''Outside Over There'', 1982<ref name=nba1982>
[http://www.nationalbook.org/nba1982.html "National Book Awards – 1982"]. [[National Book Foundation]]. Retrieved February 27, 2012.</ref>
* Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for American children's literature, 1983<ref name=wilder/>
* [[National Medal of Arts]], 1996<ref name=NEA>{{cite web|url=http://www.nea.gov/honors/medals/medalists_year.html#96 |title=Lifetime Honors: National Medal of Arts |publisher=[[National Endowment for the Arts]] (''nea.gov'') |date= |accessdate=May 10, 2012}}</ref>
* Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for children's literature, 2003<ref name=alma2003/> <!-- not "shared", there were two awards in 2003 -->
* Honorary doctorate from [[Goucher College]], 2004<ref name=Goucher>{{cite web| url=http://collegenews.org/campus-news/2004/maurice-sendak-to-speak-at-goucher-colleges-113th-commencement-may-21.html|title=Maurice Sendak to Speak at Goucher College's 113th Commencement}}</ref>
* Inducted into the [[New York Writers Hall of Fame]] in 2013.

Sendak was honored in [[North Hollywood]], California, where an elementary school was named after him. He received an honorary doctorate from [[Princeton University]] in 1984.

On June 10, 2013 [[Google]] featured an interactive [[Google doodle#Google Doodle|doodle]] where visitors could click on the video-go triangle to see an animated movie-ette of Max and Sendak's other main characters.<ref name=delmar>{{cite news |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jun/10/google-doodle-maurice-sendak-author |title=Maurice Sendak's 85th birthday: Google doodle goes where the wild things are |author=Delmar-Morgan, Alex |newspaper=The Guardian |date=June 10, 2013 |accessdate=June 10, 2013}}</ref>