--- title: Bee Interrupts Barack Obama Reading to Kids at Easter Egg Roll description: President Barack Obama reads Where the Wild Things Are canonical: https://time.com/3772676/bees-interrupt-barack-obama-reading-white-house-easter-egg-roll-2015/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-06T18:22:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:18:25.350Z og:title: Watch Kids Scream in Horror as a Bee Interrupts Obama at the White House Easter Egg Roll og:description: Generating quite a buzz at egg rolling festivities on the White House's South Lawn og:url: https://time.com/3772676/bees-interrupt-barack-obama-reading-white-house-easter-egg-roll-2015/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Kids Scream in Horror as a Bee Interrupts Obama at the White House Easter Egg Roll twitter:description: Generating quite a buzz at egg rolling festivities on the White House's South Lawn twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Kids Scream in Horror as a Bee Interrupts Barack Obama at the White House Easter Egg Roll  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Apr 6, 2015 6:22 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Apr 6, 2015 6:22 PM UTC During the 2015 White House Easter Egg Roll festivities Monday, President Barack Obama started reading Maurice Sendak’s _Where the Wild Things Are —_ [per tradition](http://time.com/70570/heres-the-leader-of-the-free-world-making-monster-faces/) — when the children listening saw a bee buzzing around and started to scream. The President kept pausing to laugh at the children’s reaction. “Wait wait wait wait,” he said, laughing. “Hold on! Hold on! You guys are wild things! You aren’t supposed to be scared of bees when you’re a wild thing!” No word on whether any representatives from the [new White House task force](http://time.com/2907230/the-white-house-wants-to-save-the-bees/) to reverse the decline in the number of bees nationwide showed up to the South Lawn and swarmed into action. Bee Interrupts Barack Obama Reading to Kids at Easter Egg Roll ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3772676/bees-interrupt-barack-obama-reading-white-house-easter-egg-roll-2015/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3772676/bees-interrupt-barack-obama-reading-white-house-easter-egg-roll-2015/"},"headline":"Watch Kids Scream in Horror as a Bee Interrupts Barack Obama at the White House Easter Egg Roll","datePublished":"2015-04-06T18:22:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:18:25.350Z","description":"Generating quite a buzz","url":"https://time.com/3772676/bees-interrupt-barack-obama-reading-white-house-easter-egg-roll-2015/","keywords":["Newsfeed","society"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3772676/bees-interrupt-barack-obama-reading-white-house-easter-egg-roll-2015/","name":"Watch Kids Scream in Horror as a Bee Interrupts Barack Obama at the White House Easter Egg Roll"}}]}] ```