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| Author | Maurice Sendak |
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| Illustrator | Sendak |
| Cover artist | Sendak |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Picture book |
| Publisher | Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books |
Publication date | October 19, 1981 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 40 pp |
| ISBN | 0-06-443185-1 |
Outside Over There is a picture book for children written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. It concerns a young girl named Ida, who must rescue her baby sister after the child has been stolen by goblins. Outside Over There has been described by Sendak as part of a type of trilogy based on psychological development from In the Night Kitchen (toddler) to Where the Wild Things Are (pre-school) to Outside Over There (pre-adolescent).[1]
- ^ Gottlieb, Richard M. (2008). "Maurice Sendak's Trilogy: Disappointment, Fury, and Their Transformation through Art". Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. 63: 186–217. doi:10.1080/00797308.2008.11800804. ISBN 978-0-300-14099-6. PMID 19449794. S2CID 25420037.