Hilda and the Midnight Giant illustrator-Maurice Sendak Also included is an afterword

Also included is an afterword by Arthur Yorinks about the roundabout journey the book took from inception to publication

A spark of light brightens a brutal world when a girl named Sam encounters her childhood best friend at the government-run "rehabilitation" camp

the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales

But by acting on her own terms

She is the mystery he must unravel

Hilda and the Midnight Giant illustrator-Maurice Sendak Also included is an afterwordHilda finds her world turned upside down as she faces the prospect of having to leave her snow capped birthplace for the hum of the megalopolis. But why do the "Hidden Elves" want her to leave? Why is it that only she can see them? And who is the giant that turns up in the night?