NEW YORK (AP) – A new digital audio edition of Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are” will have a very well known narrator: former first lady Michelle Obama. HarperCollins Publishers announced Tuesday that the audio download will go on sale October 31, the 60th anniversary of the book’s original release. Michelle Obama has read […]
Michelle Obama will narrate a new digital audio edition of Maurice Sendak s Where the Wild Things Are. This is not the first time Obama has read from the classic picture book; in 2016, she and President Barack Obama acted it out at an Easter event.
m HarperCollins Publishers announced Tuesday that a new digital audio edition of Maurice Sendak s "Where the Wild Things Are" will be narrated by former first lady Michelle Obama. In 2016, she and President Barack Obama acted out the picture book for an Easter event at the White House. "Maurice Sendak would have been absolutely delighted with Mrs. Obama s superb rendition of Where the Wild Things Are, and her strong commitment to children is much admired by us all in the Sendak household," Lynn Caponera, president and treasurer of the Maurice Sendak Foundation, said in a statement. The audio download will go on sale Oct. 31, the 60th anniversary of the book s original release. Sendak died in 2012 at age 83.
A new digital audio edition of Maurice Sendak's “Where the Wild Things Are” will have a very well known narrator: former first lady Michelle Obama. HarperCollins Publishers announced Tuesday that the audio download will go on sale Oct. 31, the 60th anniversary of the book's original release. Michelle Obama has read from “Where the Wild Things Are” before.
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