"Outside Over There" by Maurice Sendak

In this story, Ida's father is away at sea. Ida plays her horn every night to put her baby sister to sleep. One night she's playing but not watching the baby and goblins come in through the window and steal her away, leaving behind a replica made of ice. When the changeling melts, Ida knows she must go out in the storm and find her sister, but she goes out the window backwards and ends up 'outside over there'. A message from her father tells her to turn around into the rain just in time to find the baby and rescue her from the goblins, which now look like babies themselves. She returns home to her mother who has received a letter from her father saying he will soon be home from his time at sea. Sendak said in interviews that he was inspired by the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby -- a sensational case that shocked the world in 1932, when Sendak was four years old -- and that one of the pictures of Ida's sister is intended to be a portrait of little Charles Lindbergh, Jr. Ida was in