"In the Night Kitchen In the Night Kitchen is a popular and controversial children's picture book, written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak, and first published in 1970. The book depicts a young boy's dream journey through a surreal baker's kitchen where he assists in the creation of a cake to be ready by the morning. ""In the Night Kitchen"" has been described by Sendak as part of a trilogy of books based on psychological development from ""In the Night Kitchen"" (toddler) to ""Where the Wild Things Are"" (pre-school) to ""Outside Over There"" (pre-adolescent). It was a Caldecott Honor recipient in"
"Challenged Books of 1990–1999"". His 1981 book ""Outside Over There"" is the story of a girl, Ida, and her sibling jealousy and responsibility. Her father is away and so Ida is left to watch her baby sister, much to her dismay. Her sister is kidnapped by goblins and Ida must go off on a magical adventure to rescue her. At first, she is not really eager to get her sister and nearly passes her sister right by when she becomes absorbed in the magic of the quest. In the end, she rescues her baby sister, destroys the goblins, and returns"
"Obert Skye Obert Skye is the pseudonym of Robert Farrell Smith. He is a bestselling American children's writer known for the ""Leven Thumps"" series, the ""Pillage"" trilogy,[1] and ""The Creature from My Closet"" series. He is also the author of ""Witherwood Reform School"" and ""Beyond Foo"". Skye is known for novels that emphasize the power of imagination and importance of discovering the impossible in the mundane. Even the Obert Skye pen name, which is used to further ""research"" on the world of Foo in Leven Thumps and the existence of dragons in Pillage, is “all about imagination” and “thinking bigger"
"The Monsters Inside The Monsters Inside is a BBC Books original novel written by Stephen Cole and based on the long-running British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". It was published on 19 May 2005, alongside ""The Clockwise Man"" and ""Winner Takes All"". It features the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler. The TARDIS takes the Doctor and Rose to the Justicia System - a prison camp comprising the six planets in that solar system. The pair are separated and trapped in different environments, each determined to escape in their own distinctive style. However, their plans are complicated when some old"
"Suzanne Collins Suzanne Collins (born August 10, 1962) is an American television writer and author, best known as the author of ""The New York Times"" best selling series ""The Underland Chronicles"" and ""The Hunger Games"" trilogy (which consists of ""The Hunger Games"", ""Catching Fire"", and ""Mockingjay""). Suzanne Collins was born on August 10, 1962, in Hartford, Connecticut to Jane Brady Collins (born 1932) and Lt. Col. Michael John Collins (1931–2003), a U.S. Air Force officer who served in the Korean War and the Vietnam War, and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Bronze Star. She is the youngest of"
"Isabel. Suzanne Collins Suzanne Collins (born August 10, 1962) is an American television writer and author, best known as the author of ""The New York Times"" best selling series ""The Underland Chronicles"" and ""The Hunger Games"" trilogy (which consists of ""The Hunger Games"", ""Catching Fire"", and ""Mockingjay""). Suzanne Collins was born on August 10, 1962, in Hartford, Connecticut to Jane Brady Collins (born 1932) and Lt. Col. Michael John Collins (1931–2003), a U.S. Air Force officer who served in the Korean War and the Vietnam War, and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Bronze Star. She is the youngest"
"R. L. Stine Robert Lawrence Stine (; born October 8, 1943), sometimes known as Jovial Bob Stine and Eric Affabee, is an American novelist, short story writer, television producer, screenwriter, and executive editor. Stine has been referred to as the ""Stephen King of children's literature"" and is the author of hundreds of horror fiction novels, including the books in the ""Fear Street"", ""Goosebumps"", ""Rotten School,"" ""Mostly Ghostly,"" and ""The Nightmare Room"" series. Some of his other works include a ""Space Cadets"" trilogy, two ""Hark"" gamebooks, and dozens of joke books. As of 2008, Stine's books have sold over 400 million"
"Schuster/Shadow Mountain Publishing ""The Creature from My Closet"" Series—Macmillan Publishing ""Pillage"" Trilogy—Shadow Mountain Publishing ""Beyond Foo""—Shadow Mountain Publishing ""Witherwood Reform School"" (Macmillan Publishing) ""Geeked Up""—Macmillan Publishing ""Mutant Bunny Island""—Harper Collins ""Wizard For Hire""–Shadow Mountain Publishing Obert Skye Obert Skye is the pseudonym of Robert Farrell Smith. He is a bestselling American children's writer known for the ""Leven Thumps"" series, the ""Pillage"" trilogy,[1] and ""The Creature from My Closet"" series. He is also the author of ""Witherwood Reform School"" and ""Beyond Foo"". Skye is known for novels that emphasize the power of imagination and importance of discovering the impossible in the"
"Over Sea, Under Stone Over Sea, Under Stone is a contemporary fantasy novel written for children by the English author Susan Cooper, first published in London by Jonathan Cape in 1965. Cooper wrote four sequels about ten years later, making it the first volume in a series usually called ""The Dark is Rising"" (1965 to 1977). In contrast to the rest of the series, it is more a mystery, with traditional fantasy elements mainly the subject of hints later in the narrative. Thus it may ease readers into the fantasy genre. ""Over Sea, Under Stone"" features the Drew children, Simon,"
"Stewart and Grace Kelly. ""After-Dinner Story"" was first published in the United States in 1944 by Lippincott. It was reprinted in paperback in 1948 under the title """"Six Times Death."""" After-Dinner Story After-Dinner Story is a 1944 short story collection by American crime writer Cornell Woolrich under the pseudonym William Irish. It comprises six stories, and includes two of Woolrich's best known works, novella ""Marihuana"" and ""Rear Window"" (originally published in ""Dime Detective Magazine"" under the title """"It Had to be Murder""""), which was made into a movie by Alfred Hitchcock in 1954. ""After-Dinner Story"" and ""The Night Reveals"" were"
"that Dobbs's first murder victim, Bruce Grossman, was a CEO-for-hire who took over and briefly ran Burgerville in the wake of the Brandon Lorber investigation. Mr. Monk in Outer Space ""Mr. Monk in Outer Space"" is the fifth novel in the ""Monk"" mystery novel series by writer Lee Goldberg, published on October 30, 2007. When Conrad Stipe, creator of the popular science fiction TV series ""Beyond Earth"", is gunned down outside a ""Beyond Earth"" convention, Monk and Natalie are called in, and Monk soon finds that there is more going on behind the scenes than is visible to the naked"
"Janice Marriott Janice Marriott is a writer, editor, audio producer, screenwriter, creative writing tutor and mentor, manuscript assessor, poet and gardener. She lives in Auckland, New Zealand. Janice Marriott was born on 3 October 1946 in England. She lists some of her favourite childhood books as ""The Wind in the Willows"", ""The Jungle Book"", ""Black Beauty"", ""Lassie"", and Enid Blyton's Secret Seven and Famous Five series. She attended school in Napier and Gisborne, studied at Victoria University of Wellington and took a course in rare books librarianship in San Francisco. She worked in radio and television in California and Vancouver."
"screenplays for western film producers as well as television shows such as Lassie and The Gene Autry Show. Outside of film, Beecher wrote comic and children's books, including adaptions of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Tonka for the Walt Disney Corporation. Additional writings included a cookbook of early American family recipes, seven Little Golden Books, four Big Golden Books, and The Bar-Twenty Cowboy, a book selected for inclusion in the Children's Library at the British Museum. She also rewrote or ghost wrote more than 100 manuscripts. Beecher died on Saturday, March 3, 1973, in Burbank, California. She was"
"The Underland Chronicles The Underland Chronicles is a series of five epic fantasy novels by Suzanne Collins, first published between 2003 and 2007. It tells the story of a boy named Gregor and his adventures in the ""Underland"", a subterranean world located under New York City. The Underland is inhabited by humans who traveled below hundreds of years ago, along with various giant versions of creatures like bats, cockroaches, and rats. According to the author, the series involves many topics relating to war, including biological warfare, genocide, and military intelligence. While not as well-known as the author's subsequent ""Hunger Games"""
"It has never been made commercially available. Citations Over Sea, Under Stone Over Sea, Under Stone is a contemporary fantasy novel written for children by the English author Susan Cooper, first published in London by Jonathan Cape in 1965. Cooper wrote four sequels about ten years later, making it the first volume in a series usually called ""The Dark is Rising"" (1965 to 1977). In contrast to the rest of the series, it is more a mystery, with traditional fantasy elements mainly the subject of hints later in the narrative. Thus it may ease readers into the fantasy genre. ""Over"
"An extensive list of Mercer Mayer's work is on the Mercer Mayer bibliography page. Mercer Mayer Mercer Mayer (December 30, 1943) is an American children's book writer and illustrator. He has published over 300 books using a wide range of illustrative styles. Mayer is best known for his ""Little Critter"" and ""Little Monster"" series of books. Mayer was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. His father was in the United States Navy, so the family moved many times during his childhood before settling in Honolulu, Hawaii. There, Mayer graduated from high school in 1961. While attending school at the Honolulu Museum"
"Nigel Balchin Nigel Balchin (3 December 1908 – 17 May 1970) was an English novelist and screenwriter particularly known for his novels written during and immediately after World War II: ""Darkness Falls from the Air"", ""The Small Back Room"" and ""Mine Own Executioner"". He was born Nigel Marlin Balchin, in Potterne, Wiltshire, the third and last child of William Edwin Balchin (1872-1958), a baker and teashop proprietor, later grocer, and Ada (née Curtis), the daughter of a railway guard. His paternal grandfather, George Martin Balchin (1830-1898), of a line of wealthy Surrey farmers, was a farmer of 800 acres; his"
"Lowry intended for his magnum opus. Malcolm Lowry Clarence Malcolm Lowry (; 28 July 1909 – 26 June 1957) was an English poet and novelist who is best known for his 1947 novel ""Under the Volcano"", which was voted No. 11 in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list. Lowry was born in New Brighton, Wirral, UK the fourth son of Evelyn Boden and Arthur Lowry, a cotton broker with roots in Cumberland. He was educated at The Leys School in Cambridge (the school made famous by the novel ""Goodbye, Mr. Chips"") and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. In 1912, the"
"Jennifer A. Nielsen Jennifer Anne Nielsen (born 10 July 1971) is an American author known primarily for young adult fiction. Her works include the ""Ascendance Trilogy"", ""Behind Enemy Lines"" (one of the books in the Infinity Ring series), ""The Mark of the Thief"", ""A Night Divided"", and the ""Underworld Chronicles"". Nielsen was born and raised in northern Utah and completed her first full manuscript at the age of 11. However, it was abandoned after being turned down by a locksmith for information due to her age. She published ""Elliot and the Goblin War"", the first ""Underworld Chronicles"" book, in 2010"
"from those of Emerson and Thoreau. Millen Brand Millen Brand (January 19, 1906 – March 19, 1980) was an American writer and poet. His novels ""Savage Sleep"" and ""The Outward Room,"" which addressed mental health institutions, were bestsellers in the 1960s and 1930s, respectively. Millen was born on January 19, 1906, in Jersey City, New Jersey, into a working-class family. He was of Pennsylvania German descent on his mother’s side. He graduated from Columbia University. After graduation (circa 1926), he began to work as a psychiatric aide and also a copywriter before accepting faculty posts at New York University and"
"Under the Mountain Under the Mountain is a 1979 children's book by New Zealand writer Maurice Gee. It has been adapted into a 1981 television miniseries and a 2009 film. Beneath the extinct volcanoes surrounding the city, giant creatures are waking from a spellbound sleep that has lasted thousands of years. Their goal is the destruction of the world. Rachel and Theo Matheson are twins. Apart from having red hair, there is nothing remarkable about them - or so they think. They are horrified to discover that they have a strange and awesome destiny. Only the Matheson twins can save"
"the record before us it appears he has been completely untrustworthy and amoral."" Jan Valtin Richard Julius Hermann Krebs (December 17, 1905 - January 1, 1951), better known by his alias Jan Valtin, was a German writer during the interwar period. He settled in the United States in 1938, and in 1940 (as Valtin) wrote his bestselling book ""Out of the Night"". Krebs became active in the Communist movement as a boy, when his father was involved in the naval mutiny that heralded the German Revolution of 1918–19. In 1923, he saw action in the failed Communist insurgency in Hamburg."
"the world from the terror of what is under the mountain. Under the Mountain Under the Mountain is a 1979 children's book by New Zealand writer Maurice Gee. It has been adapted into a 1981 television miniseries and a 2009 film. Beneath the extinct volcanoes surrounding the city, giant creatures are waking from a spellbound sleep that has lasted thousands of years. Their goal is the destruction of the world. Rachel and Theo Matheson are twins. Apart from having red hair, there is nothing remarkable about them - or so they think. They are horrified to discover that they have"
"The City Outside the World The City Outside the World is a science fantasy novel by American writer Lin Carter, the third in his Edgar Rice Burroughs- and Leigh Brackett-inspired series The Mysteries of Mars. It was first published in paperback by Berkley Medallion in October 1977 and in reissued in trade paperback by Wildside Press in December 1999. The first hardcover edition was published by Wildside Press in February 2011. Mars, a world with a culture ages older than that of Earth, is a dying world, and has been in decline for eons. By the twenty-second century it has"
"Inside, Outside (Wouk novel) Inside, Outside is a 1985 Herman Wouk novel telling the story of four generations of a Russian Jewish family and its travails in Russia and America. The book is a first person (and somewhat autobiographical) narrative told from the viewpoint of Israel David Goodkind, the third of the four generations in the book. Goodkind works in a minor bureaucratic post in the White House between March and October 1973; his insignificance gives him time to write his memoirs (the book itself, told as though Goodkind wrote it) while his position gives him opportunities to come face"
"The House on Maple Street ""The House On Maple Street"" is a science fiction short story by American writer Stephen King, published in his collection ""Nightmares & Dreamscapes"". It was one of several stories first published in that volume. It has also been recorded as an audio book, read by the author's wife, Tabitha King. The story was inspired by one of the drawings included in the children's book ""The Mysteries of Harris Burdick"", by Chris Van Allsburg. After a summer spent abroad, the four Bradbury children return to their home on Maple Street and discover that something is growing"
"Gerry Turner Gerry Turner was an American children's fiction author. He published 7 books, including one fairy tale, ""Magic Night for Lillibet"", and one Science fiction novel, ""Stranger from the Depths"", also Creative Crafts for Everyone and The Teen Model Book between 1959 and 1968. in addition to writing, he was a well regarded portrait photographer, specializing in children. Some of his images are in a permanent collection of the White House. Much of his photographic work was privately commissioned but many of his images were used in editorial publications, and for a number of years was commissioned by the"
"The Cottage outside the Village The Cottage outside the Village (""Chata za wsią"") is a novel by the prolific Polish novelist Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, written in 1842. It was serialized in the monthly, ""Biblioteka Warszawska"" (The Warsaw Library), over a two-year period in 1853-54. In 1854-55 it appeared in a three-volume book edition published by the St. Petersburg house of B.M. Wolff. The book belongs to the folk-novel genre and depicts discrimination practiced against the Gypsy community. It is one of the most widely read novels by Kraszewski, and was adapted for theater, opera and film. It has been translated"
"Inside Outside (novel) Inside / Outside is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip José Farmer. Originally released in 1964, the novel explores the question of what happens before souls inhabit human bodies, and how they are created. Jack Cull (a pun on the word ""jackal"") finds himself in a bizarre location called ""Hell"". A huge sphere with a sun in the center, Hell's population consists of deceased humans and demons; the humans have the same mind and body as when they died, there is no disease or famine, and deaths are reversed within hours. Earthquakes are frequent occurrences."
"Jan Valtin Richard Julius Hermann Krebs (December 17, 1905 - January 1, 1951), better known by his alias Jan Valtin, was a German writer during the interwar period. He settled in the United States in 1938, and in 1940 (as Valtin) wrote his bestselling book ""Out of the Night"". Krebs became active in the Communist movement as a boy, when his father was involved in the naval mutiny that heralded the German Revolution of 1918–19. In 1923, he saw action in the failed Communist insurgency in Hamburg. Sometime after this he joined the German Communist Party, but was later expelled."
"Beneath the Moors Beneath the Moors is a fantasy horror novel by author Brian Lumley. It was published by Arkham House in 1974 in an edition of 3,842 copies. It was Lumley's second book published by Arkham House. The novel is part of the Cthulhu Mythos. Professor Ewart Masters convalesces at the home of his nephew, after an automobile accident. There he discovers the existence of an ancient Cimmerian city beneath the Yorkshire moors. He proceeds to have dream adventures in the realms of the Great Old Ones. The short novel incorporates the short story The Sister City by Brian"
"the book ""Gone at 3:17: The Untold Story of the Worst School Disaster in American History"", by journalists David M. Brown and Michael Wereschagin, was published by Potomac Books. Also in 2012, Ron Rozelle, a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, wrote a book about the tragedy called ""My Boys and Girls are in There"". The book was released to coincide with the seventy-fifth anniversary of the disaster. The 2015 historical novel ""Out of Darkness"" by Ashley Hope Pérez depicts the explosion incident. New London School explosion The New London School explosion occurred on March 18, 1937, when a"
"Honor. Sendak was delighted and enthusiastic about the collaboration. He once wryly remarked that his parents were ""finally"" impressed by their youngest child when he collaborated with Singer. His book ""In the Night Kitchen,"" originally issued in 1970, has often been subjected to censorship for its drawings of a young boy prancing naked through the story. The book has been challenged in several American states including Illinois, New Jersey, Minnesota, and Texas. ""In the Night Kitchen"" regularly appears on the American Library Association's list of ""frequently challenged and banned books"". It was listed number 21 on the ""100 Most Frequently"