Higglety Pigglety Pop!: Or There Must Be More to Life Paperback

from carsonandreas

Childhood favourite. Remember finding it profoundly sad, disturbing, beautiful and compelling. A seminal book for me.

from VioletBramble

Last September I saw the Sendak on Sendak exhibition at the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia. I was drawn to some black and white illustrations of a dog with a suitcase. Sendak wrote this book after the death of his sealyham terrier Jennie. In the book Jennie decides to pack up her be...

from hollyhox

Fun story about a little dog who runs away and becomes an actress. Jennie will eat anything. Sendak based this story on his own beloved dog.

from deadlibrary

This is my favorite of Sendak's books. The story is both sad and humorous. Sendak's illustrations are precise and charming. Higglety Pigglety Pop! can be read as a metaphor for death or leaving home (or simply an odd, lovely, and surreal tale to be enjoyed); regardless, it's a wonderful children'...

from Whisper1

Now I remember why I never liked fairy tales -- they are spooky and complicated -- and so is this book. Sendak wrote the book after his beloved dog Jennie died. Taking lines from a Mother Goose poem, Sendak created a fairy tale of multifaceted layers. Jennie is bored and has everything a dog or m...