Mickey’s milk harvesting song, for instance : “I’m in the milk and the milk’s in me. There are also bits of rhyme that have stayed with you for as long as I can remember. The character designs are also spot-on Mickey is wonderfully expressive, and the jolly, be-mustachio’ed appearance of the bakers – they look a little like the Mario Brothers actually – helps tip the tone of the book from scary to surreal. The city of the Night Kitchen is charming – it’s even got elevated trains made out of bread loaves. You know how sometimes you go back and read or watch something you loved as a child, and spend the entire time cringing? And then there are times when you go back, and it’s just.
Once this ingredient is obtained, the bakers complete their cake, and Mickey returns to bed. However, he escapes, and builds an airplane out of bread dough to harvest milk from the Milky Way. He is menaced by three fat, good-humored giants in chef’s outfits, who mix him into a cake batter and put him in the oven. The otherworld that Mickey journeys to when he is awoken by bumps in the night is the Night Kitchen, a city with jam jars and coffee canisters for buildings. And rather than using concealing props and postures, Maurice Sendak simply draws him, little-boy penis and all. He later acquires a sort of flight suit made of cake batter, but for much of the action, he is naked. At part of the transition from this mundane scene to the surreal world where the main action of the book takes place, Mickey falls out of his clothes. In the Night Kitchen opens and closes with its protagonist in bed, wearing his pajamas.
When our copy arrived, I found the following stamp inside the front cover: Windham Public Library: WITHDRAWN. One of the books I picked out was In the Night Kitchen. Recently, my husband and I bought a giant pile of used children’s books for our one-year-old son – the books we remembered most fondly from our childhoods. Publication Info: Red Fox New Ed edition July 5, 2001
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