Mikey hears racket in the night, falls past the moon and into the night kitchen where he builds

Author/Illustrator: Maurice Sendak
Published: HarperCollins, 1970

Mikey hears racket in the night, falls past the moon and into the night kitchen where he builds an airplane out of dough and flies to the Milky Way to get milk for the cake. Sendak's incomparable doughy illustrations and rhythmic text will have inspired generations of kids to march around their kitchens chanting: "Milk in the batter! Milk in the batter! We bake cake! And nothing's the matter!" A Caldecott Honor book.