Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are" and Spike Jonze's Movie Spin!

Here is a review from Dymocks:

"The story of Max, who is so naughty when he wears his wolf suit that he's sent to bed without any supper. In the night, a fantastic world of forests and seas appears in Max's bedroom, and he sails away to the land where the Wild Things are and becomes their king."

ISBN 9780099408390

We have the following copy of the book and a video available.

1. Where the wild things are / story and pictures by Maurice Sendak.
Sendak, Maurcie
London : Red Fox, 2000.

Location Collection Call Number Status/Desc
Lithgow junior picture books Y SEN

2. Where the wild things are [videorecording] : and 5 other stories from the Maurice Sendak library / Maurice Sendak.
Sendak, Maurice, 1928-
Homebush, N.S.W. : Video Distributors International, 1990.
1 videocassette (VHS) (ca. 32 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Children's circle
Watchword video ; 1.

Location Collection Call Number Status/Desc
Lithgow videos junior fiction VJF SEN* n.66

Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are" is another great children's book that Hollywood has transformed onto the "Big Screen".The movie is titled "Wild Things" and in the video clip below, Sendak talks about director Spike Jonze's perspicacious interpretation of this wonderful children's picture book. Sendak is also one of the producers along with Tom Hanks.

To view the trailer for the movie which will be released in Australia 3rd Dec 2009, click "Wild Things" which will lead you to the link on YouTube as embedding of the code for this movie into blogs, has been disabled by request from distributors.

Apollo 11 Tribute 40th Anniversary

The Apollo 11 mission was successful on July 20 1969, when Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the Moon. "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," he said, before stepping down onto the lunar surface.

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin spent only short period on the moon setting up experiments.Michael Collins stayed aboard the orbiting command mission module. On leaving the moon they left, a number of items (106+) including an United States flag, and a plaque that reads: "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot on the Moon—July 1969 A.D.—We came in peace for all mankind." Another item which I thought was very moving were the commemorative medals from the astronauts who died in the Apollo 1 mission and medals from the dead Soviet cosmonauts, Vladimir Komarov and Yuri Gagarin. (In fact, Valentin Bondarenko was the first man to die in the space race, but it wasn't until 1980 that the world found out that he perished in a fire, during an endurance experiment.)

Anyway, I have produced a small slide show, acknowledgment and gratitude to NASA image archives. I then have also added music (YouTube) from the wonderful Creedence Clearwater Revival and their hit "Bad Moon Rising" which was released on May 3rd 1969.

I remember, I was in Yr 6 at St Mary's Catholic Primary school, Orange NSW and the nuns sent us home early, to watch the landing on TV that afternoon. Ahhhhh.....memories!! Ahhhhh...40 yrs on!!

Kids Gaming For Wallerawang Branch Library?

Wouldnt be wonderful to have a kids gaming centre up and running at Wallerawang Branch Library! Perhaps Nintendo Australia could help us out!!

Here is a YouTube video of a setup in a public library in the USA.

Mr Bean at the library

Back at work and after all that rain, we need some laughter
to brighten up our day.

This is my favourite Mr Bean episode taken from YouTube.
One can imagine the havoc he could level upon any library!

Day of Rest

I am relaxing at home today but I am all excited about starting Wallerawang Branch Library Blog and what information I can share with borrowers about Web 2.0 tools as well as bringing our library into the 21st Century!!

I found this fabulously entertaining YouTube video extolling the virtues of change in public libraries. It is quite funny and was produced by an Australian guy called Andrew