Give me your honest opinion about the content of the book (especially the illustrations).*See the Book read out loud on YouTube by the late James Gandolfini.* See the animated book on YouTube: In The Night Kitchen - by Michael Yakob.*The book was adapted into a five-minute animated short film in 1981 by Gene Deitch.*In an interview on NPR'S Fresh Air, Sendak said his depiction of the cooks with their Hitler-esque mustaches and the fact that they tried to cook the boy in the oven references the Holocaust, a subject that haunts him because of his Jewish heritage.The book still is stigmatized by these critics and in some places the book is banned. They pointed to the free-flowing milky fluids and the giant milk bottle which allegedly (to them) resembled a phallic symbol. Many people were shocked at the child nudity and also asserted that other sexual innuendos were happening in the picture book besides that. On his way down his pajamas come off exposing his naked little body (buttocks and genitials) which leads to the controversy and uproar.

He tumbles out of his bed and floats downward passing the moon shining in through the window, the room where his mother is sleeping and then drifts by his father's room. He hears noises coming from the kitchen in the middle of the night and he yells ,'Quiet down there!' In a dream-like fashion he descends to the kitchen to find out who is making all the fuss. The main character in the story is Mickey and he looks about three or four years old. It received the Caldecott Honour Book Award in 1971. It was first published in 1970 and became very popular and controversial amongst the reading masses. If you do not know Maurice Sendak for this book I am going to review today, you certainly will recognize the book he is most famous for, 'Where The Wild Things Are.' This particular book is noteworthy also but for different reasons. In 2003, Sendak received the first Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, an annual international prize for children’s literature established by the Swedish government.'No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.' In 1970 he received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Illustration, in 1983 he received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award from the American Library Association, and in 1996 he received a National Medal of Arts in recognition of his contribution to the arts in America. He received the 1964 Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are and is the creator of such classics as In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There, Higglety Pigglety Pop!, and Nutshell Library.

Maurice Sendak’s children’s books have sold over 30 million copies and have been translated into more than 40 languages.

In the night kitchen pictures