After author Maurice Sendak died Tuesday, Smacky confessed he’s never read Where the Wild Things Are. I haven’t either.

I learned to read via Richard Scarry (my little tribute to Busytown and “passenger-loading stairs” here), then Berenstain Bears, then a whole library of Mom’s well-worn, ’60s-era Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys hardbacks.

Wild Things — both the book and the 2009 movie based on it — slipped past me. The soundtrack, written by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O, did not. “All is Love” is adorably simple and sweet and oh-so-warm-fuzzy:

From “All is Love,” Karen O & The Kids, Where the Wild Things Are OST, 2009:

One, two, ready, go!

Grow some big feet. Holes in history
Is where you’ll find me, is where you’ll find
All is Love, is Love, is Love, is Love.

L-O-V-E: It’s a mystery
Where you’ll find me, where you’ll find
All is Love, is Love, is Love, is Love.

I wonder how that teeny-weeny picture book was stretched into a feature-length film.