In The Night Kitchen

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Peter Schickele
Peter Schickele

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    Mickey falls through the dark into the Night Kitchen where three fat bakers are making the morning cake and so begins an intoxicating dream fantasy in this animated short adaptation of Maurice Sendak's 1970 Caldecott Honor children's picture book.

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    1987-10-20

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