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This You Tube video features Barack Obama reading this book to children at the 2009 White House Easter Egg Roll.
Sendak's book is a 1963 Caldecott Medal Winner. The illustrations are fantastical and insane … part of Max’s imagination. The monsters in the story don’t seem too threatening, although they grow larger as Max’s imagination takes him further away from reality. When Max feels the call to ”return to earth,” the beasts shrink. ...more
This You Tube video features Barack Obama reading this book to children at the 2009 White House Easter Egg Roll.
Sendak's book is a 1963 Caldecott Medal Winner. The illustrations are fantastical and insane … part of Max’s imagination. The monsters in the story don’t seem too threatening, although they grow larger as Max’s imagination takes him further away from reality. When Max feels the call to ”return to earth,” the beasts shrink. ...more

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