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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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