IN THE NIGHT KITCHEN

first edition

1971 · London

by Sendak, Maurice
London: The Bodley Head, 1971. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. First UK edition of the dreamland bedtime adventure and Caldecott Honor book. A surreal exploration of the vivid paths of children's minds as they drift to sleep, IN THE NIGHT KITCHEN is the philosophical sequel to WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE and continues that book's revolutionary focus on the inner emotional lives of children. Frequently banned for depicting its protagonist fully nude, IN THE NIGHT KITCHEN takes readers through a lush nonsense world featuring serenely inimical bakers and verses that mimic the rhythms of William Blake's verse. The book's comic-like aesthetic draws (truncated)
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