Things I Find In The Play Area #2

This one, I'm told, is the baby in the Night Kitchen. "In The Night Kitchen," which for those unfamiliar with it is a story by Maurice Sendak. I wasn't familiar with it either, but it is one of the stories on a very fine Scholastic video of "Where The Wild Things Are" we were given (thanks Anita!). I find the "In the Night Kitchen" a little odd, actually, but S. is fascinated by it. It involves the dreams of a little boy, Mickey, who goes off into space and gets kneaded into some dough by large chefs, then ruins the bread by popping out of it. The chefs are irritated and need more milk for more cake, so Mickey makes an airplane out of dough and goes up through the Milky Way to get milk. I think I've got that right; I don't always watch S.'s videos too closely.

I suspect my husband may have had a hand in this particular tableaux, but I'm not sure. S. is very taken with the Night Kitchen and chants "milk in the batter" a lot and makes the little baby doll ride her toy plane, as well as kneading the baby doll into playdough.

On a side note, "In The Night Kitchen" is apparently a commonly banned book (and I'm always in favor of those) as Mickey is nude in parts of it. I found various analyses of it here and here. I don't think S. is interested in the banned book status, though. She just likes the plane.