In the Night Kitchen: A Caldecott Honor Award Winner (Caldecott Collection)

ISBN: 0064434362

Author: Sendak, Maurice

Condition: New

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 adventures in the bakers kitchen as they prepare our morning cake. "Milk in the batter! Milk in the batter! We bake cake and nothings the matter!" the bakers sing.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.HarperCollins is proud to present this new edition of In the Night Kitchen that has been printed in close collaboration with the Maurice Sendak Foundation to ensure that Maurice Sendaks original artwork has been reproduced to the highest standards."A celebration of the primal, sensory world of childhood and an affirmation of its imaginative potency," proclaimed Children's Books and Their Creators.