The story of a little girl who saves her baby sister from the goblins by playing her wonder horn, Outside Over There sheds light on children’s deepest fears. Sendak received the American Book Award in 1982 for the book, which was also a Caldecott Honor Book and won the 1981 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Illustration.
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Outside Over There
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Maurice Sendak Illustrations