A review by bennysbooks
Higglety Pigglety Pop!: Or There Must Be More to Life by Maurice Sendak

5.0

Found a used, 1967 edition. I think it's been well loved - the cover is worn and ripped, with a ring from a tea or coffee on it, and clippings of articles about Maurice Sendak carefully tucked between the pages. I've owned it for a few months, but kept putting off picking it up. I lost a beloved grandparent last year, and books about loss like this are hitting harder than usual. But something about it being my first book of 2024, the first year I will spend without my grandpa, felt right. 

I adored this book. Even without the added level of personal grief, it is a strange and delightful read. Nobody writes children's literature with the faith in children, and in stories, that Sendak did.