"Wild Things" and Assassination

Here's an excerpt from a 2010 interview that "Wild Things" author Maurice Sendak did with Gary Groth of The Comic Journal.

SENDAK: Bush was president, I thought, “Be brave. Tie a bomb to your shirt. Insist on going to the White House. And I wanna have a big hug with the vice president, definitely. And his wife, and the president, and his wife, and anybody else that can fit into the love hug.” 

GROTH: A group hug. 

SENDAK: And then we’ll blow ourselves up, and I’d be a hero. [Groth laughs.] To hell with the kiddie books. He killed Bush. He killed the vice president. Oh my God. 

GROTH: I would have been willing to forgo this interview. [Sendak laughs.] 

SENDAK: You would have forgotten about it. It would have been a very brave and wonderful thing. But I didn’t do it; I didn’t do it.

I am happy that we never purchased a single one of these books when our son was growing up.

The current occupier of the White House reads "Where The Wild Things Are" at the 2009 White House Easter Egg Roll.

Eating the dog? No wonder he's a fan of the book!