When you’re awake at night and a bit drowsy, you might believe you see a UFO. Is it light or dark? Did that dream make sense? It had made perfect sense, and it still does make sense, but in the morning it won’t make sense, and probably will have faded away. And with that you get the distinction between being awake in the night and waking up in the night. Is the room light or dark, you wonder as your eyes get used to being open. What about when you wake up? You’ve been dreaming, and suddenly– what were you dreaming? Was that a dolphin or a shark? Your eyes struggle between open and closed, and finally settle on rising up, with that funny feeling as your eyelashes disentangle. (Well, maybe you’d admit to something else, but if you say you don’t like mushrooms I’m afraid we can’t be friends.) You can believe things in the dark, too: “Someone came knocking at my wee, small door.” Maybe you even believe you saw a UFO.īut that’s just in the dark. Have you ever quietly talked in a dark room? You can confess things: “I actually don’t like cilantro,” you whisper. It’s a bit more permissive, there in the dark.

I couldn’t tell you what woke me (I was dreaming about sharks, so maybe that was it), but I noticed again what I’ve noticed before: waking up in the night feels different. It’s fun and funny.Last night I woke up with a start. It’s a crazy dream-story – no crazier than any of the ones I have and are able to remember. He eventually climbs out of the cake and into a bread dough plane only to fall into a giant bottle of milk, which he then gives to the bakers so they can bake their cake. I wish I had cake every morning! Mickey gets mistaken for milk by a trio of Oliver Hardy (of Laurel and Hardy fame) chefs baking a giant cake. Kittens aren’t born being self-conscious about their bodies – it’s something they learn from the adults around them.īeyond all that censorship nonsense, In the Night Kitchen is a fun romp through a dream about having cake in the morning. It’s an illustration of a dream, for goodness sake, and kittens (for whom it was written) will find it very funny. And for that, some librarians (both school and public) have reportedly obscured poor Mickey’s nether region with tape, markers and the like. I laughed because it was funny and because his willie is teeny-tiny and has no detail.

That’s right – Mickey is naked – with his willie exposed and everything. Why is this cute picture book challenged? Because it’s main character, Mickey, falls into a crazy dream and falls out of his clothes. If not, then just know that he is a bit off-the-beam, left-of-center and not afraid of his artistic vision. If you are familiar with his books, then you know what I mean. The first thing you should know about this frequently challenged/banned book is that the author is Maurice Sendak.

In the night kitchen pictures