When this special was released on DVD in 2000, one song "The Ballad of Chicken Soup" is cut out due to self-strangulation depicting in the number.
Though the special has never been released in its entirety on DVD, the Carole King song adaptations of The Nutshell Library, set to the 1999 remastered CD version of the soundtrack were made available on the very first Scholastic Video Collection/Storybook Treasures DVD "Where The Wild Things Are and more Maurice Sendak Stories" released on September 24th, 2002
The special was released on VHS by Children's Circle in 1993.