New Sendak Book Set for 2024 Release

By Sharon Verbeten

Among my many surprises and joys coming out of the ALA Annual Conference in June was my learning that a previously unpublished picture book by my idol/icon/favorite author Maurice Sendak is production stages. Ten Little Rabbits will be released by HarperCollins on February 6, 2024. Rights were acquired from the Maurice Sendak Foundation.

The story introduces young magician, Mino, whose act involves a wand, a magic hat, and a parade of ornery rabbits. Illustrations have a similar style to Sendak’s earlier works, such as the Nutshell Library.

Ten Little Rabbits was originally created in 1970 as a small paper-bound pamphlet for a fundraiser for Philadelphia’s Rosenbach Museum. The new book will be published in a 7-by-9-inch format.

This November marks the sixtieth anniversary of Sendak’s Caldecott Award-winning Where the Wild Things Are, originally published November 23, 1963. &