by Maurice Sendak
Genre: Food / Humor / Dream Year Published: 1970 Year Read: 1992 “In the Night Kitchen” is a follow-up of Maurice Sendak’s famous children’s book, “Where the Wild Things Are” and has also received the distinguished Caldecott Honor Book Award. “In the Night Kitchen” is also one of the most contr...
I read this to my kids for banned books week. They absolutely loved it. In the Night Kitchen is frequently banned because the little boy is - completely - naked, but that's what my boys loved most about it. They giggled a lot about how completely naked he was, but it really brought them into the sto...
Since our almost 3 year old daughter keeps saying "Read the Sendak!" ever since we brought In the Night Kitchen home from the library, it must be good. It's a Caldecott winner after all, and one of the most banned books of all time. The child protagonist spends a significant chunk of the book ... wa...
I'm not going to do my full out review for this book. I can't. Many reviews argue either for or against this book because of what the artist chose to put in it as well as what they read into it.I can't do that. Here's why.This was, hands down, my favorite book as a child for more years then I can co...
★★★In The Night Kitchen by Maurice SendakThis one was a weird one. Mickey falls asleep, and starts to dream. He falls right out of his clothes and into the night kichen. Three fat bakers try to bake him in a cake. He escapes as a human doughboy, to a plane, and to the Milky Way. But my daughter seem...
To the person (librarian, patron, library employee or hippopotamus) who censored this book: you are a jerk, and I hope you realize that scribbling ever so carefully over Mickey's private parts meant you focused more on them than anybody else who's going to read the book. Doesn't that make you the pe...
Mickey has a wild dream where he meets 3 men who are baking the morning cake.
If I could only have one kids book to read at night to Izzy this would be it.
The three cooks are my favorite part, but I love this fiercely. The kids were never as keen, because they didn't get all the visual jokes.Library copy
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