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In the Night Kitchen

by Unknown Author

3.9
(9 ratings)
40 pages1995HarperCollins PublishersISBN 9780060266684

About this 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.<br/>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! We bake cake and nothing’s the matter!" the bakers sing.<br/>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.<br/>"A celebration of the primal, sensory world of childhood and an affirmation of its imaginative potency," proclaimed Children's Books and Their Creators.

Publication Details

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Published
1995
Pages
40
ISBN
9780060266684
Language
en

About Unknown Author

Maurice Sendak is an American writer and illustrator of children's literature. He is best known for his book *Where the Wild Things Are*, published in 1963.

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