- Goblins, Families, Mental Depression, Juvenile fiction
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.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and intimate.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Maurice Sendak
- First published
- January 1, 1982
- Pages
- 40
- Publisher
- HarperTrophy, L'Ecole des loisirs, Tandem Library
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- glg, Chinese, English, baq
- ISBN
- 9780099432920
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“When Papa was away at sea, Ida played her wonder horn to rock the baby still - but never watched.”
Maurice Sendak is an American writer and illustrator of children's literature. He is best known for his book *Where the Wild Things Are*, published in 1963.
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