Where The Wild Things Are

     First book of fiction that I recall from grade school. Once again it was the Willard School librarian who introduced this story by Maurice Sendak to us. The illustrations are huge and allowed her to read a little then show us the picture on the page. This gave us some time to process the image and story so we could understand it all better. Today we might do this same thing by using a large computer screen on the wall. This is good and different in that there is no scarcity, when we use digital books there are a seemingly unlimited number of copies. Back in the day they would buy one copy at a time and see how it was received by students.

    
     This book went viral with the students and immediately produced a waiting list. As I recall we could only keep the book for a few days, nothing at all like the weeks I have now at my library.