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.
"A celebration of the primal, sensory world of childhood and an
affirmation of its imaginative potency," proclaimed Children's Books
and Their Creators.