'Where The Wild Things Are' videos (1973 and 2009)
To be honest, I've blogged about this before , but it's worthy of blogging about again . The book Where The Wild Things Are is a must have for any one's personal book collection, period. If you know someone who just had a baby, then be the first person to add this treasured book to that child's library. It's a classic's classic. It put the book's author, Maurice Sendak, right up front and center regarding children's literature and raised the bar so much higher for every other illustrator and author for the rest of all time. Embedded here in this blog post are two different video versions of this groundbreaking illustrated classic. The first one is a video of "Where The Wild Things Are" which you probably had to watch on rainy days at school in the "Media Center." (If you are my age, they called that place a "library" and it's where they kept all those clunky things we call books, today.) The first video wa