Obama on “Where the Wild Things Are”
Transcript: “I can’t say as a child what book influenced me most. My favorite book – and it continues to be one of my favorite books – was “Where the Wild Things Are.” I love that book. My wife still thinks that I’m Max, that I’m getting into mischief all the time. But as I evolved, as I got older, I think that what had the greatest impact on me rather than one single book was my mother’s love of books. That’s part of the reason why I think I emphasize parents so much in this process because as much trouble as I got into as an adolescent, she would constantly send me books. That’s what I got every birthday were books. I was holding out for the basketball or the bike, and I’d get these big stacks of books. I’d be disappointed initially, but she knew that eventually I’d end up picking them up and reading them. And that, I think, really laid the foundation for my subsequent success.” (h/t Slighty Read – New and Used Books)
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Timothy A. Bear said,
March 31, 2009 at 11:31 pm
An oil painting of Barack Obama as Max from ‘Where The Wild Things Are’-
http://faithmouse.blogspot.com/2009/03/where-wild-obama-are.html
Qiana said,
April 1, 2009 at 6:57 am
Hi Timothy, thanks for stopping by!
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