RF03 In the Night Kitchen (SOLD)

NEW Paperback Picture Book : In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
Caldecott Honor Book 1971
ALA Notable Children's Book
School Library Journal Best Books of 1970
Outstanding Children's Books of 1970 (NYT)
Best Illustrated Children's Books of 1970 (NYT)

This book is the 2nd book in Sendak's famous Wild Things trilogy and an acknowledged picture book classic.

A young boy named Mickey sleeps in his bed when he is disturbed by noise on a lower floor. Suddenly, he begins to float, and loses his clothes as he drifts into a surreal world called the "Night Kitchen".

He falls into a giant mixing pot that has the batter for the morning cake. While Mickey is buried in the mass, three identical bakers mix the batter and prepare it for baking while unaware (or unconcerned) that there is a boy inside. As the bakers are about to put it in the "Mickey oven", Mickey emerges protesting that he is not the batter's milk.

To make up for the baking ingredient deficiency, Mickey (now wearing a bodysuit of batter from the neck down) constructs a working airplane out of bread dough to reach the mouth of a gigantic milk bottle. Using the plane, he flies up to the bottle's opening and dives in. After briefly revelling inside the liquid as his covering of batter disintegrates, he pours the needed milk in a cascade down to the bakers who joyfully finish making the morning cake.

With the dawn breaking, the naked Mickey crows like a rooster and slides down the bottle to magically return to his bed, with everything back to normal beyond the happy memory of his experience.
The art is similar to Where The Wild Things Are, utilizing specific color tones and drawing a dream environment around a young child. Sendak's unique style captures the spirit and feeling of a dream, as Mickey floats, flies, and dances from one panel to the next

Publisher : Red Fox

List Price : 5.99pounds

Selling Price : RM26.00

Code : RF03