![]() She does so and interrupts the goblins, now in the form of babies, in the midst of a wedding. She then hears her father's voice telling her to turn around into the rain. However, because she exits the window backwards she enters Outside Over There where she cannot find the goblins or her sister. The changeling melts as Ida cradles it and Ida, realizing what has happened, blows her wonder horn, dons her mother's yellow rain cloak, and sets off after her baby sister. One night while she is playing her horn and not paying attention to the baby, goblins sneak in through the window and steal her baby sister away, replacing her with a changeling made of ice. She plays her horn each night to make her baby sister sleep. ![]() The father of Ida, the main character, is away at sea. ![]() 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). It concerns a young girl named Ida, who must rescue her baby sister after the child has been stolen by goblins. ![]() Outside Over There is a picture book for children written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. ![]()
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