US town pursues museum honoring Maurice Sendak

Three years after Maurice Sendak's death, his western Connecticut hometown is pursuing a museum honoring the author of Where the Wild Things Are.

The town of Ridgefield has its sights on a vacant modernist building walking distance from the village center, a glass structure designed by acclaimed architect Philip Johnson as corporate offices for an oil exploration company that left in 2006.

A panel of local arts figures recently received endorsement from the town and Sendak's foundation to explore the proposal. Members say they have found overwhelming support for the idea to honor a man whose influence went far beyond that of a children's book author.