In the Night Kitchen
Readers rate it 4.1 (34 on Hardcover)
42 pages · Released 2001 · Random House
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In the Night Kitchen parent’s guide: what’s inside
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A note for parents
In the Night Kitchen is a classic, beloved picture book featuring a dream-adventure where a child helps bakers make a cake. The story celebrates imagination, helpfulness, and resourcefulness. While the dream setting includes some mildly disorienting or surreal moments typical of nightmares, there is no genuine danger or violence. The brief moment of the boy being partially nude (a detail Sendak included matter-of-factly) is presented without any sexual context and has not been controversial in children's literature circles for decades.
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From the publisher
A little boy's dream-fantasy in which he helps three fat bakers get milk for their cake batter. A little boy's dream-fantasy in which he helps three fat bakers get milk for their cake batter.
Shelved under
- Juvenile Fiction
- Fantasy
- Adventure
- Classics
- Comics
- Picture books for children
- Picture books
- Children's stories
- Fantasy fiction
- Baking
- Fiction
- Pictures
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ISBN 9780099417477 · Random House