This is another wonderful, imaginative book by Sendak. The way Sendak manipulates the story and illustrations to reflect a young child's "experiences in the night kitchen," is dream-like and surreal - I don't know if I was fully able to experience the story because of my lack of "a-child's-imagination."
I just want to say one thing about the controversy surrounding this book, "when WE relay our own negative feelings and negative connotations of 'private parts,' genders, and sexuality to children, we are only instilling them with our own interpretations, and we are depriving them of the ability to make important decisions on their own." I guess what I'm trying to say, is that, in a child's mind, there is nothing wrong with this book until we tell them there is. Anyhow, from a literal perspective, the boy needed to take his clothes off to get into the cake batter, it makes perfect sense.
Okay, one more thing . . . Everyone is so caught up in the nakedness, the religious intonation has been missed, HA! What's up with that?
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