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Outside Over There
With Papa off to sea and Mama despondent, Ida must go outside over there to rescue her baby sister from goblins who steal her to be a goblin's bride.
Paperback, 40 pages
Published
February 28th 1989
by HarperCollins
(first published 1981)
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According to Sendak Outside Over There is the final installment of his trilogy which also includes Where the Wild Things Are and In The Night Kitchen. The books, he says, 'are all variations on the same them: how children master various feelings - anger, boredom, fear, frustration, jealousy - and manage to come to grips with the realities of their lives.' This might sound like a bit of psycho-babble nonsense to those who don’t believe in the literary power of picture books. But the truth is that...more
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I don't know why this lovely book has been challenged and/or banned. It is absolutely beautiful. In fact, so beautiful and appealing that it was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1982 (yay Maurice Sendak!!!!)
I LOVED reading this book to my children when they were smaller. Recently I gave them each their own copy for their Hope(less) Chests, so that they can read it to their own children.
My children are all in therapy and take strong psychiatric medicines due to their fear of being exchanged by goblins f...more
I LOVED reading this book to my children when they were smaller. Recently I gave them each their own copy for their Hope(less) Chests, so that they can read it to their own children.
My children are all in therapy and take strong psychiatric medicines due to their fear of being exchanged by goblins f...more
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This deceptively simple mythopoetic tale of a sister rescuing a baby from the goblins is powerful and disturbing in the manner of dreams.
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“Outside Over There” is a Caldecott Honor Book from the creative mind of Maurice Sendak about how a young girl named Ida must save her sister from a band of goblins. “Outside Over There” may have some scary images and the theme of child kidnapping, but it is still an excellent book full of adventure that many children will love.
Maurice Sendak’s story about a young girl rescuing her little sister is highly creative as it is written in a wonderfully surreal way that makes the story highly interes...more
Maurice Sendak’s story about a young girl rescuing her little sister is highly creative as it is written in a wonderfully surreal way that makes the story highly interes...more
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Dr. Mr. Sendak, Please seek therapy elsewhere and stop scaring the hell out of me!
I read this to my young daughter without previewing first, and regretted it shortly into it. "I don't think we'll read this one." "Why not?" "It's too scary." Always a bad word choice - then she definitely wants to read it...and read it we did. Before bed she expressed deep concern that the goblins would take her stuffed Pooh bear away. (Her baby brother, however, she was not concerned about for some reason.) The next day she spent an hour pretending to rescue her "babies" from the goblins.
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I just recently found out that it was this book that inspired the motion picture Labyrinth. Being a big fan of the cult film I had to check it out. Goblins come and take a baby sister away might be a too frightening experience for some younger audiences. Marked by life like and simple illustrations, your eyes follow the prose to the very end.
Sad that this author's voice is now gone. I can see how the dark theme may not suit all, but reminds me of the dark fairy tales long past.
Sad that this author's voice is now gone. I can see how the dark theme may not suit all, but reminds me of the dark fairy tales long past.
Some people think this book is super creepy, and I guess it kind of is, but we like it anyway. Big sister Ida has to rescue her little sister from the goblins who have kidnapped her (and they leave an ice baby in her place). The goblins look like little children themselves, and Ida plays her horn until they dance themselves into a stream and..well...you know.
I hesitate to even tell people we like this book because like I say, its an odd book with a weird story. But both my kids have really like...more
I hesitate to even tell people we like this book because like I say, its an odd book with a weird story. But both my kids have really like...more
With In the Night Kitchen, among my favorite children's books. Gorgeously illustrated, the story of how Ida loses, then finds and rescues, her baby sister from the clutches of goblins, while her mother pines for their father at sea, has all the qualities of a dream. Stunning, elusive, epic, Sendak doesn't shy away from showing a child's deepest fears, and revealing her deepest strengths, and he's not afraid of ambiguity either. If I had all the money in the world, I'd buy all the original artwor...more
Leave This Book "outside over there"!: Not one of Sendak's best in my opinion. I'm a huge fan of Where the Wild Things Are, but Outside Over There lacks an appeal to children in its text and storyline. It’s short and honestly a bit boring. I was somewhat disturbed at babies being “married” and kidnapped by goblins and I smaller children would probably find it a bit scary. I think the book was probably intended for a second or third grader, but the text and word choice is a bit much for someone o...more
This was one of my favorite books as a little girl...I would check it out from the library whenever I had the chance and loved for my mom to read it to me. Yesterday, a copy was sitting on my bed...my mother had bought it at a library book sale. I was so excited...I had not read it in years. When I finished, I was taken back at how CREEPY it was. I guess I have always loved eerie, strange, and haunting things and still do. This is sounding like a blog so bottom line it's a CLASSIC in my eyes.
This picture book by Maurice Sendak is about a young girl named Ida who is left in charge of her baby sister while her dad is away at sea. Her mother waits at the arbor for her betrothed leaving poor Ida to care for her baby sister. As Ida is playing her horn to calm her baby sister she is not paying attention and her baby sister is stolen by golem's to be a golem's bride, for golem's look just like little babies. Ida follows the golems out of the window and searches for her baby sister but is n...more
Excuse my lack of eloquence when I say the first thing that I thought while reading: "WHOA."
This is a dark, nightmarish story, in which the late, SO-great Sendak specialized. The illustration of the ice-child, the frozen changeling put in place after the protagonist's sister is kidnapped by goblins hoping to make her their child bride, is downright horrifying. Sendak had his finger on exactly the pulse of what makes childrens, and hence humans, tick. What they hope for (food! dancing beasts! es...more
This is a dark, nightmarish story, in which the late, SO-great Sendak specialized. The illustration of the ice-child, the frozen changeling put in place after the protagonist's sister is kidnapped by goblins hoping to make her their child bride, is downright horrifying. Sendak had his finger on exactly the pulse of what makes childrens, and hence humans, tick. What they hope for (food! dancing beasts! es...more
"Outside Over There" was written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak and was published in 1981. This book received the Caldecott Honor Award for its beautiful, life-like illustrations. In the book, a little girl named Ida must watch after her mother and baby sister while her father is away at sea. One day while Ida was watching her baby sister, goblins kidnapped the baby, thus propelling Ida to search for her little sister. Eventually, Ida finds the goblins and discovers that they all look like ba...more
Picture Books for Older Readers
The first thing about this book that strikes the reader is the beautiful, life like illustrations. The yellow raincoat that the main character puts on piles in elegant folds, and it is just wonderful. While there is very little text in this book it is definitely intended for older readers. The content is very dark and places a great deal of responsibility and blame on the older child in the story which is something that an early elementary student would not conside...more
The first thing about this book that strikes the reader is the beautiful, life like illustrations. The yellow raincoat that the main character puts on piles in elegant folds, and it is just wonderful. While there is very little text in this book it is definitely intended for older readers. The content is very dark and places a great deal of responsibility and blame on the older child in the story which is something that an early elementary student would not conside...more
‘Outside Over There’ by ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ author Maurice Sendak is a picture book which tells the story of a girl called Ida and the kidnapping of her sister by goblins.
Discovering and reading this book again was an enjoyable if strange experience. Much of this is to do with the incredibly detailed dream like art Sendak has created, as this brought back to me memories of being read to as a child by my parents. This is the kind of book ‘Outside Over There’ seems to be; a book for child...more
Discovering and reading this book again was an enjoyable if strange experience. Much of this is to do with the incredibly detailed dream like art Sendak has created, as this brought back to me memories of being read to as a child by my parents. This is the kind of book ‘Outside Over There’ seems to be; a book for child...more
Outside Over There: written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak
One of two books illustrated by the same artist
Recommended for grades 2nd – 4th
“Outside Over There”, is a story that is about responsibility and paying attention to what is happening around you. Ida, the main character in the story, is supposed to be watching her baby sister, but she is to concerned with playing her horn. When Ida is not looking goblins come and kidnap her baby sister. Luckly, Ida is able to find the goblins hideout...more
One of two books illustrated by the same artist
Recommended for grades 2nd – 4th
“Outside Over There”, is a story that is about responsibility and paying attention to what is happening around you. Ida, the main character in the story, is supposed to be watching her baby sister, but she is to concerned with playing her horn. When Ida is not looking goblins come and kidnap her baby sister. Luckly, Ida is able to find the goblins hideout...more
Same Artist
Outside Over There
3 stars
3rd-5th grades
The illustrations can almost tell a story without the text they are very descriptive and detailed. He uses many colors and realism in these drawings instead of cartooning like some of his other books. He uses many babies in the story which are appealing to little children. The text by Sendak is somewhat the same as they are with his other books Where the Wild Things Are they have the same kind of repetition. The book starts with the pages being f...more
Outside Over There
3 stars
3rd-5th grades
The illustrations can almost tell a story without the text they are very descriptive and detailed. He uses many colors and realism in these drawings instead of cartooning like some of his other books. He uses many babies in the story which are appealing to little children. The text by Sendak is somewhat the same as they are with his other books Where the Wild Things Are they have the same kind of repetition. The book starts with the pages being f...more
SUMMARY
This is the story of how Ida’s little sister, who can’t hardly be two years old, is snatched up by goblins and taken away to Outside, Over There to be a goblin’s bride. They leave an ice changeling in her place, and when she melts, Ida realizes what has happened. However, Ida’s father is at sea, and her mother is pining away for missing him, so Ida climbs out her window backward to Outside, Over There, and rescues her sister from the goblins, who, without their hooded cloaks, look exactly...more
This is the story of how Ida’s little sister, who can’t hardly be two years old, is snatched up by goblins and taken away to Outside, Over There to be a goblin’s bride. They leave an ice changeling in her place, and when she melts, Ida realizes what has happened. However, Ida’s father is at sea, and her mother is pining away for missing him, so Ida climbs out her window backward to Outside, Over There, and rescues her sister from the goblins, who, without their hooded cloaks, look exactly...more
Other than the creepily illustrated faces, and an anachronistic dog (German shepherds are a twentieth century invention; while this seems to have an early 19th century feel to it), I enjoyed this, the third in the Maurice Sendak triumvirate. Sendak's work can be so pretentiously self aware and full of pop psychology so I'm sure you can read a whole bunch of childhood angst and fear and loathing and anger into Outside Over There It has some basis in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping; leave it to Maur...more
Nov 18, 2009
Lisa Vegan
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2 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommended to Lisa by:
Chandra
Oh, no no no no. Not for me. Well, I feel as though there is something the matter with me but I didn’t much like this story. I think I need to read this to some children and see their responses. I confess the only reason I gave Where the Wild Things Are four stars is because over the years, as an adolescent and as an adult, I’ve read it to many children, and their enthusiasm has been contagious. If I’d read it in a void I’d have also given it two stars only.
I think I’d have appreciated the illus...more
I think I’d have appreciated the illus...more
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This book fascinated me as a child. In struggling to wrap my brain around the writing style, I recognized it, along with the illustrations and the story itself, as an element of the eerie beauty of the whole.
The story line, the illustrations, and the writing style are all creepy and unsettling, yet I could not take my eyes away. It has been years since I read or even thought about this book, but the excerpt from the never-ending book quiz sent chills down my spine anew.
The story line, the illustrations, and the writing style are all creepy and unsettling, yet I could not take my eyes away. It has been years since I read or even thought about this book, but the excerpt from the never-ending book quiz sent chills down my spine anew.
Outside Over There is a Caldecott Honor (1982), a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Picture Book (1981) and is recommended for children in kindergarten through third grade. In this story, the main character is supposed to be watching her baby sister, but instead she is consumed with playing her horn. When Ida is not looking, goblins come and kidnap her baby sister, replacing her with an ice baby. Luckily, Ida is able to find the goblins hideout and she finds her baby sister.
This story has themes...more
Have you ever read a story in which a child has been kidnapped, or even known a child that has been kidnapped personally? Well, if you answered yes to either one of those questions, then you will be in for a treat as you read "Outside over There" by Maurice Sendak.
This is a story about a young girl, Ida, who is in charge of watching over her baby sister while her mother and father are both away. Ida takes on this responsibility and plays the horn for her baby sister until she is kidnapped by go...more
This is a story about a young girl, Ida, who is in charge of watching over her baby sister while her mother and father are both away. Ida takes on this responsibility and plays the horn for her baby sister until she is kidnapped by go...more
I really enjoyed this book. It holds a good lesson about putting aside things that get in the way of love. Ida is responsible for looking after her little sister while their father is gone. Her irresponsibility leads to her sister getting kidnapped. Ida then sets out to save her little sister. Along the way, she has a magical adventure, and almost gets distracted enough to forget her mission. In the end, everything works out, and Ida learns to put aside her jealousy and love her baby sister. The...more
The illustrations in this book were AMAZING. That's pretty much the highlighting factor of the entire book. I can see why it won the Caldecott Honor for the illustrations (maybe less for the story).
Ida's baby sister is taken by goblins while Ida practices playing her "wonder horn." Her sister is traded off for a baby goblin made of ice which eventually melts, leaving Ida dismayed and angry. She follows the goblins in hopes of getting her sister back home safe and sound.
The illustrations are so b...more
Ida's baby sister is taken by goblins while Ida practices playing her "wonder horn." Her sister is traded off for a baby goblin made of ice which eventually melts, leaving Ida dismayed and angry. She follows the goblins in hopes of getting her sister back home safe and sound.
The illustrations are so b...more
Much as I hate interpretations of artists based on their books, I've got to say - Sendak has got some serious problems with women. The other two books in this trilogy (Where The Wild Things Are & In The Night Kitchen) focus on boys, boys who are wild and crazy and mess things up and take chances and play, play, play! with no real consequence because boys will be boys and that is the way of the world. They fall in and out of their clothes and wander about with arrogant nakedness, they create...more
Maurice Sendak's 1981 tale of girl vs. goblins sounds very much like the plot to Jim Henson's Labyrinth: a young girl's infant sibling is stolen away by these trickster creatures and she sets off to save the baby. only in this version, David Bowie doesn't appear. also, the character of Ida is about 9 whereas Jennifer Connelly's Sarah Williams was about 15 (at least physically) and her stepbrother Toby wore a much parodied striped one-piece suit.
Outside Over There deals with themes of separation...more
Outside Over There deals with themes of separation...more
I rarely do a review on childrens books but I felt it necessary to write one on this book. This is APPALLING! Firstly, the pictures are revolting - they look like dead babies - when you're reading it to a pre-schooler, this is something that needs addressing as young people use visual clues to understand the text, and the illustrations in this book scared my son. Secondly, the writing is very poor - particularly disappointing when it's written by a world renowned author such as Maurice Sendak. I...more
Some people think this book is super creepy, and I guess it kind of is, but we like it anyway. Big sister Ida has to rescue her little sister from the goblins who have kidnapped her (and they leave an ice baby in her place). The goblins look like little children themselves, and Ida plays her horn until they dance themselves into a stream and..well...you know.
I hesitate to even tell people we like this book because like I say, its an odd book with a weird story. But both my kids have really like...more
I hesitate to even tell people we like this book because like I say, its an odd book with a weird story. But both my kids have really like...more
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Maurice Bernard Sendak is an American writer and illustrator of children's literature who is best known for his book Where the Wild Things Are, published in 1963. An elementary school (from kindergarten to grade five) in North Hollywood, California is named in his honor.
Sendak was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Polish-Jewish immigrant parents, and decided to become an illustrator after viewing Wal...more
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