In the Night Kitchen

September 5, 2025 - In the Night Kitchen is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak, first published in hardcover in 1970 by Harper and Row. The book depicts a young boy's dream journey through a surreal baker's kitchen where he assists in the creation of a cake to be ready by the morning.

Amazon.com: In the Night Kitchen: A Caldecott Honor Award Winner (Caldecott Collection): 9780064434362: Sendak, Maurice, Sendak, Maurice: Books

First published 25 years ago, this magnificent bedtime fantasy B A 1971 Caldecott Honor Book B tells how little Mickey falls out of bed and into the night kitchen. There, he builds an airplane out of bread dough and flies off to get milk for ...

Sendak's hero Mickey falls through the dark into the Night Kitchen where three fat bakers are making the morning cake. So begins an intoxicating dream fantasy, described by the artist himself as 'a fantasy ten feet deep in reality'.

October 17, 2023 - In The Night Kitchen, a Caldecott Honor Book, was published in 1970.

BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, ... Honor-winning tale of a fantastical dream world. In the Night Kitchen is the classic story of Mickey's adventures in the bakers' kitchen as they prepare our morning cake."...

From the acclaimed author-artist Maurice Sendak comes a Caldecott Honor-winning tale of a fantastical dream world. This comic fantasy will delight readers of all ages with playful illustrations and an imaginative world only Sendak could create.

October 1, 2025 - In the Night Kitchen is the classic story of Mickey’s adventures in the bakers’ kitchen as they prepare our morning cake. “Milk in the batter! Milk in the batter!

October 5, 2011 - For me, In the Night Kitchen is a PERFECT library book – it has the potential to be a big hit or a big miss, depending on your household, so being able to pilot it at your local library first before bringing it home is a very good thing.

In the Night Kitchen is the classic story of Mickey's adventures in the bakers’ kitchen as they prepare our morning cake. "Milk in the batter! Milk in the batter!

The bakers in the night kitchen need more milk for their batter, but then Mickey falls into the cake! They decide to put him in the oven anyway, but Mickey has different plans. He escapes in a plane made of bread dough and helps the bakers find the milk at last. "A celebration of the primal, sensory world of childhood and an affirmation of its imaginative potency," proclaimed Children's Books and Their Creators.

Sendak',s classic comic fantasy of Mickey's adventures in the night kitchen tells us how we get our morning cake.

Maurice Sendak’s books have been frequently challenged in libraries, in particular his children’s book In the Night Kitchen, an award-winning book that features a young boy’s dream journey through a baker’s kitchen. The book upset many librarians and adults because its young protagonist, Mickey, was depicted in the nude.

November 15, 1990 - Sally Nirenberg is the author of Recipes from the Night Kitchen, a Simon & Schuster book.

From the acclaimed author-artist Maurice Sendak comes a Caldecott Honor-winning tale of a fantastical dream world. This comic fantasy will delight readers of all ages with playful illustrations and an imaginative world only Sendak could create. In the Night Kitchen is the classic story of Mickey's ...

April 29, 2025 - The child remains unharmed and undaunted, triumphing in an imaginative way. ‘In the Night Kitchen’ has been included as a recommended title as so many people have said they have been influenced by it.

Sendak, M. (1970) In the Night Kitchen. New York: Harper Collins. Sendak, M. (1981) Outside Over There. New York: Harper Collins. Sendak, M. (1963) Where the Wild Things Are. New York: Harper Collins. ... The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2000.

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