<p>Today’s awesome Google interactive headline:</p>
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<p>Best ever! Loved it!</p>
<p>is there a reason it is on google today? About 15 years ago I could have recited the book … one of the most read books in the house.</p>
<p>Maurice Sendak’s 85th birthday (though he died this year)</p>
<p>The doddle is very cute, but I swear, my brother and I must have been the only kids who didn’t really like that book. We were read to–and later read–all time as children, but that particular book wasn’t a favorite for us.</p>
<p>We have so many of Sendaks books, and tapes of operas, musicals & ballets, he designed.
What a talented guy.
[Terry</a> Gross’s Moving Maurice Sendak Interview, Illustrated by Christoph Niemann | Brain Pickings](<a href=“Artist Terry Border Imagines Everyday Objects in Romantic and Risqué Scenarios – The Marginalian”>Terry Gross’s Moving Maurice Sendak Interview, Illustrated by Christoph Niemann – The Marginalian)</p>
<p>Have you see the interview with Stephen Colbert? Really great.</p>
<p>^ I’ve watched both parts of Colbert’s interview with “Mo” so many times, and had to watch again today, thanks to the google graphic. Sendak was one of the few who could put Colbert in his place, with hilarious results.</p>
<p>The Colbert interview was hilarious! I still don’t know whether or not he was yanking our chains when he says he never intended his books for children.</p>
<p>He seemed to mean that he didnt think of children the way he felt society looked at children, so he didnt consider them apart from anybody else?
But rather that they should be told the truth and not sold a bill of goods.</p>
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<p>Brought back sweet memories :).</p>
<p>it was middle son’s favorite. He turned 29 on June 12.</p>
<p>D has a first edition signed copy of Where the Wild Things Are. It was her dad’s as a boy.</p>
<p>yankee belle, that is awesome!</p>
<p>Wow, YankeeBelle!</p>
<p>Thanks for mentioning the Colbert interview, 1moremom. I hadn’t known about it, and I watched both parts. Really wonderful!</p>
<p>Years ago, I was on the train into NYC with S1, and I was reading Where the Wild Things Are to him. At one point I noticed that a man sitting across from us was crying. He told us that he used to read that book to his son when he was younger, and hearing it had made him nostalgic. I feel that way now, seeing those characters in the Google video.</p>
<p>I agree that this is the best google page ever.</p>
<p>It’s amazing it has survived through all the moves and readings. First him, then his sister and them my college daughter. It is still in good shape.</p>
<p>D2 loved the book. H used to read it over and over to her.</p>
<p>We still have my first edition; alas, it is not signed. I do have a signed Dr. Suess (that is how he signed) and a signed “From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, which was one of my all-time favorites growing up.</p>