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From the acclaimed author-artist Maurice Sendak comes a Caldecott Honor-winning tale of a fantastical dream world. This comic fantasy will delight readers of all ages with playful illustrations and an imaginative world only Sendak could create. In the Night Kitchen is the classic story of Mickey's adventures in the bakers’ kitchen as they prepare our morning cake. "Milk in the batter! Milk in the batter! We bake cake and nothing’s the matter!" the bakers sing. The bakers in the night kitchen need more milk for their batter, but then Mickey falls into the cake! They decide to put him in the oven anyway, but Mickey has different plans. He escapes in a plane made of bread dough and helps the bakers find the milk at last. "A celebration of the primal, sensory world of childhood and an affirmation of its imaginative potency," proclaimed Children's Books and Their Creators.

米奇半夜听见一阵吵闹声，接着就跌进了黑暗里，身上的衣服也跑光了。他经过月光照耀的窗户，还有爸爸妈妈熟睡的房间，来到了午夜厨房——几个面包师傅正在那里做蛋糕，他们需要牛奶，一边忙活一边唱：“牛奶加进面糊里！牛奶加进面糊里！”米奇掉进了面糊里，蛋糕烤到一半的时候，他钻了出来，拍拍打打做了一架面包飞机，飞到午夜厨房的银河之上，帮助面包师傅取到了牛奶。
       桑达克别出心裁地以漫画的形式创作出了这本经典图画书，讲述了一个男孩在幻想世界冒险的故事。这本充满了想象力的图画书出版后赢得了无数孩子的喜爱，并获得1970年的凯迪克银奖。《午夜厨房》是桑达克“图画书三部曲”的第二部，是对孩子原始感知力的庆祝，也是对孩子想象力的肯定。