#outside over there

[tomoleary]

Maurice Sendak (1928-2012) Outside Over There (1977) Source

[fuckyeahlabyrinth]

Sound very similar to Labyrinth! Published just several years before Labyrinth.

Outside Over There - Wikipedia

Outside Over There - Wikipedia

I was researching Maurice Sendak because my son adores Little Bear (me too!) and this book caught my eye. A young girl must save her baby sister, who was stolen by goblins, before the baby sister is forced to be a goblin wife! Quite creepy. Many of the reviews on Amazon mention this as well. Thought it was neat and wanted to share!

EDIT: Apparently this book is on Sarah’s shelves?! I have got to do a rewatch!!

[jessica-drewz]

Outside Over There by Maurice Sendak

[carpentrix]

Maybe in your life you have pressed your forehead against another’s forehead. And maybe in that moment, you were not mother or father or child or sister or brother or friend or lover. Maybe in that moment, you were two skulls, two moons, hidden behind a thin cloud of forehead, behind a thin mist of eyelid, two skull moons glowing against each other, skull curve surface touching, eye sockets cratering, and the increasing complexity of truth collecting in the dark and infinite space that pooled in the shadowed place at the backs of your heads. The shadowed half of the moon is where the dream visions collect before they’re sent to the pond to be dreamed and forgotten.

The “Moon in Full” series continues at the Paris Review with the Strawberry Moon in June.

[tawneybel]

Gobblin’

The Jareth imagines were getting notes again like two weeks ago. Coincidentally, I was reading The Sisters of the Winter Wood, which put me in a goblin-ish/wintry mood. So I decided to read Wintersong and A Wild Winter Swan next. Out of Oz is my between-borrowed-books right now. Also coincidentally, The Brides of Maracoor is out! 

The Wicked Years are my favorite fantasy series because Wicked was a tenth birthday present. It was the first adult-demographic book I ever read and it’s based on my childhood fave, L. Frank Baum’s Oz. Unfortunately, there were the caricatures (which even appeared on official merchandise) in the source material, but Baum passed in 1919 and Maguire’s revisionist series generally denounces racism. 

Harry Potter has a special place in my heart, but it hurts knowing the author is openly bigoted. Good thing I already own the original book/movie series, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Quidditch through the Ages, and Tales of Beedle the Bard. If want to own HP merch but feel guilty, just buy used. I’ve been reading eBay for Dummies. Okay, back to fun goblinning:

Goblin Market by Christina Rosetti: I first read this in an anthology of fairy stories for children. My copy is around somewhere. I loved the illustrations (which weren’t the original ones by Rosetti’s brother) because of the abundant looks the goblins had. Cats, monkeys, rodents, bats, birds, and so forth. In little motley outfits. 

Outside over There by Maurice Sendak: Where the modern goblin bride trend originated? The goblins start off as creepy figures in grayish purple robes, then are revealed to be babies themselves. Sendak is one of my favorite illustrators of all time, btw. 

Labyrinth: I like when minions are just a gathering of little guys. 

Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black: This post discusses Spiderwick hobgoblins and gremlins. Tony DiTerlizzi made the goblins look simultaneously froggy and bat-like. 

The Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner: Liba is literally a Bear Jew. Not sure if that was intentional on Rossner’s part. This novel was inspired by “Goblin Market,” as well as shapeshifter fairy tales. Sisters’s goblins are anti-Semitic. They’re not caricatures. The goblins are anti-Semitic in the sense they stir up hatred against the protagonists’ community because they want humans to wipe each other out. Using Jews as scapegoats. 

Cheddar Goblin from Mandy: Seriously underrated movie. I choose to believe the mac and cheese doesn’t contain calf rennet. 

Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones: Labyrinthine, in the sense it was inspired by Labyrinth. It’s like A Court of Thorns and Roses, The Host, and Wicked Lovely where I like the world building, but don’t really care about the romance. Like, the setting and monsters made me not care that I wasn’t really into the love interests. 

A Wild Winter Swan by Gregory Maguire: The protagonist’s name is Laura, rounding this post back to “Goblin Market” despite having no goblinery. There’s a cool half-winged swan boy, though, because it’s based on “The Wild Swans.” Which also inspired Rossner’s book. This is like Maguire’s fourth Christmas story. 

[josieandthepussycatsofficial]

yo you guys remember this picture book

where a baby got stolen by goblins to be their goblin bride and was replaced by an ice baby and the sister had to go rescue her? and this was for children? and the shit looked like this? what the fuck is wrong with maurice sendak

[agarthanguide]

This is a strange thing to be thinking about, today, but-

While less well-known than “Where the Wild Things Are” or “In the Night Kitchen,” the book “Outside Over There,” by Maurice Sendak, was a Caldecott Nominee in 1981 and inspired, among many other works of art, the movie “Labyrinth.” It’s a dark fairytale for serious children about changelings and the protection that siblings give to one another.  Sendak intentionally modeled the face of the stolen child on The Lindbergh Baby.

[books-in-media]

Labyrinth, (1986)

—The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz, L. Frank Baum (1900) —Outside Over There, Maurice Sendak (1981) —Hans Anderson: His Classic Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Andersen (1913) —Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (1909) —Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Walt Disney Company (1973) —Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, Lewis Carroll (1871)