Who awarded Sendak the Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are?
The Pulitzer committee
The Nobel Prize committee
The Association for Library Service to Children
The Man Booker Prize committee
Answer
The Caldecott Medal is awarded by the Association for Library Service to Children to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children. Maurice Sendak won the Caldecott Medal for his 1963 book Where the Wild Things Are.
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