In the Night Kitchen
This is such a weird book, but my 3-year old can't get enough of it, constantly singing "Milk in the batter! Milk in the batter!" Why in the world was Mikey in the cake at all?
Revised Review:In the Night Kitchen is a follow-up of Maurice Sendaks famous childrens book, Where the Wild Things Are and has also received the distinguished Caldecott Honor Book Award. In the Night Kitchen is also one of the most controversial books in history due to many images of Mickey being naked during his dream trip to the Night Kitchen. This book details the adventures of a small boy named Mickey who journeys to the Night Kitchen and meets three unusual cooks and eventually saves the
This one is my favourite of Sendaks work! I just love the magical and unbelievably worlds he creates through the illustrations. His words are always so catchy and the storyline provokes so much discussion about the reader interpretation and the hidden meanings.
This is another book I feel like I had on tape. Then again, maybe it's just that the words have a very strong rhythm, like a chant, that makes me feel like I had it on tape. Anyway, the story is pretty surreal from the beginning; a little boy falls out of his bed and out of his clothes (to this day I am still surprised that Sendak chose to use full frontal nudity throughout the story) and into a wild city where huge household products and food containers replace the buildings in the skyline. I
Any time a book has polarizing reviews, I'm interested as to why. This being a kids' book made me more interested. Seems one issue was the little boy's nekkedness. That was not an issue for me at all. Kids like being naked. We all have strange dreams. (This book is the little boy's dream.) What really weirded me out was the three fat bakers. They were creepy. I guess this confirms that I'm not a huge Maurice Sendak fan.... ;)
The only children's book I can give 5 stars, and I'll do it gladly and ask for seconds. It truly is a remarkable, psychadelic romp of a child's dream wherein **SPOILER ALERT**a boy named Mickey falls through his house into a fantasy kitchen with giant cooks who mistake him for some milk (milk!) and merrily bake him into their cake. Umm.... Alarm! This is a new situation for me. But fear not! Mickey escapes by fashioning an old WWII prop plane out of bread dough and shows those looney-toon cooks
Maurice Sendak
Paperback | Pages: 40 pages Rating: 4.04 | 15754 Users | 846 Reviews
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Original Title: | In the Night Kitchen |
ISBN: | 0099417472 (ISBN13: 9780099417477) |
Edition Language: | English |
Literary Awards: | Caldecott Medal Nominee (1971), Vlag en Wimpel Penseeljury (1982) |
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I have a confession to make, goodreads. You might want to sit down. I've been seeing other literary social cataloguing websites. No, wait, put that plate down. It wasn't because I really wanted to see anyone else. . . it was for my grade. *dodges plate* Wait, wait, let me explain! The thing is, I'm doing a big project on book reviews. I'm analyzing the rhetorical differences between online book reviews and those published in print. From meta-reviews to highly negative reviews, to reviews that are discussing the process of reading the book instead of the actual book itself, I'm searching for every kind of trend that's developing. Including the brilliant one-sentence reviews. How many have I been seeing? Uh, like four. Probably six by the end of the week. *dodges a lamp* But I'm not reviewing with them, goodreads! I'm just there for the . . . well, you know . . . if I want my project to say anything, I need to know the lay of the land, don't I? But, more than just literary social cataloguing websites, I'm also looking at other parts of the internet: online-only reviewers, amazon.com book reviews, and on and on. The project itself will be specifically about reviews on goodreads, but I'm going to do some comparisons to see why our reviews are better than theirs. Because they are, and I love you the best. I'm saying all this because it would just be the cat's pajamas if anyone knows a website I should check out, article I should read, or even a specific review that you think of as a "must read." And I raise the question: is it even a book review if the book is never mentioned, nor any issue about the book's subject matter raised?Define Regarding Books In the Night Kitchen
Title | : | In the Night Kitchen |
Author | : | Maurice Sendak |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 40 pages |
Published | : | July 1st 2001 by Red Fox (first published 1970) |
Categories | : | Childrens. Picture Books. Fiction |
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Ratings: 4.04 From 15754 Users | 846 ReviewsAssessment Regarding Books In the Night Kitchen
This got three readings on the first go!This is such a weird book, but my 3-year old can't get enough of it, constantly singing "Milk in the batter! Milk in the batter!" Why in the world was Mikey in the cake at all?
Revised Review:In the Night Kitchen is a follow-up of Maurice Sendaks famous childrens book, Where the Wild Things Are and has also received the distinguished Caldecott Honor Book Award. In the Night Kitchen is also one of the most controversial books in history due to many images of Mickey being naked during his dream trip to the Night Kitchen. This book details the adventures of a small boy named Mickey who journeys to the Night Kitchen and meets three unusual cooks and eventually saves the
This one is my favourite of Sendaks work! I just love the magical and unbelievably worlds he creates through the illustrations. His words are always so catchy and the storyline provokes so much discussion about the reader interpretation and the hidden meanings.
This is another book I feel like I had on tape. Then again, maybe it's just that the words have a very strong rhythm, like a chant, that makes me feel like I had it on tape. Anyway, the story is pretty surreal from the beginning; a little boy falls out of his bed and out of his clothes (to this day I am still surprised that Sendak chose to use full frontal nudity throughout the story) and into a wild city where huge household products and food containers replace the buildings in the skyline. I
Any time a book has polarizing reviews, I'm interested as to why. This being a kids' book made me more interested. Seems one issue was the little boy's nekkedness. That was not an issue for me at all. Kids like being naked. We all have strange dreams. (This book is the little boy's dream.) What really weirded me out was the three fat bakers. They were creepy. I guess this confirms that I'm not a huge Maurice Sendak fan.... ;)
The only children's book I can give 5 stars, and I'll do it gladly and ask for seconds. It truly is a remarkable, psychadelic romp of a child's dream wherein **SPOILER ALERT**a boy named Mickey falls through his house into a fantasy kitchen with giant cooks who mistake him for some milk (milk!) and merrily bake him into their cake. Umm.... Alarm! This is a new situation for me. But fear not! Mickey escapes by fashioning an old WWII prop plane out of bread dough and shows those looney-toon cooks
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