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In the Night Kitchen: A Caldecott Honor Award Winner

by Maurice Sendak

A nighttime bakery adventure in pictures

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    Caldecott Honor

    The book is identified as a Caldecott Honor winner.

AlbakiReads Editorial

A nighttime bakery adventure in pictures

Mickey’s trip through the night kitchen turns a baking mishap into a fantastical adventure. When the bakers run short of milk and Mickey ends up in their cake, he escapes in a plane made of bread dough and helps solve their problem. The story links familiar kitchen ingredients and cake-making with a dreamlike world of oversized possibilities, carried by Sendak’s original illustrations. This anniversary edition was produced in collaboration with the Maurice Sendak Foundation to reproduce the original artwork.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Children in the listed 4–8 age group
  • Families looking for an illustrated fantasy built around baking and a child’s adventure
  • Readers interested in Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s books

Themes

ImaginationDreams and fantasyBaking and foodResourcefulness

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Book overview

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 nothing's 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 Sendak's 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.

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