The Night Kitchen- Illustration Study

The Night Kitchen written and illustrated by Maurice Sednak is another book illustrated in his crazy point of view. Just in the cover, we see the main character flying above the city, but we can still completely notice the background, which is of the same importance as the main thing. I can easily see the shops he is flying above and all of the different buildings. The sort of thing int he cover follows along in the rest of the book. We see the boy, and everything in the background is what we really should be looking at. It is important as well. It is very crazy though, too. I'm not sure about all of the pictures of the little boy's bare bottom. I was teaching a bone lesson one day, and the students giggled and said "EW!" when i turned the skeleton around to show the backbone. There wasn't even a 'butt' exposed then, and I feel like if this book was used in the classroom, the students would quit listening to the story, even if you explained why he was bare and naked. They would just be focusing on the fact that there is the back and side of a naked young boy being read to them. I think I would even hear some giggles in the college classroom.