I have mixed emotions about Werner Herzog as a director. Fitzcarraldo, one of his early films, in which actors (and non-actors) really did drag a whole steam ship up and over a mountain in the wilds of Peru -- to make a movie about an obsessed opera-lover who drives his people to drag a steam ship up and over a mountain in the wilds of Peru -- is a masterpiece. Encounters at the End of the World was self-absorbed and acerbic and overall not interesting. So I'm mixed. I suppose he would approve.

If you don't know Werner Herzog's work -- or if you do -- you might enjoy this supposed reading of Curious George (with interjections). (It's not really Herzog doing the reading.)

And another, "Herzog" reading Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, by Virginia Lee Burton, which many of us remember from our tadpole days.

Too bad there isn't a reading of Katy and The Big Snow, a sister volume to Mike Mulligan, also by Burton, and my favorite of her oeuvre.