Max Greenfield

And then I think a day after that he called me and he goes, we've sold it to Penguin.

And I go, you gotta be kidding me.

Yes, and also the struggles that one has with it or that a child has with it or that I had with it

or that a parent has with it trying to get their child who has problems with it.

And it articulates a lot of those feelings and insecurities and hopefully creates a conversation for a child and a teacher or a librarian, whatever it is, a parent.

And it was so relevant and present and part of my experience that writing it was a piece of cake.

Yes, for sure.

Times are a lot different now, and I think if you have the resources, which we do, and I feel very grateful to have those resources, but not a lot of people do, actually.

You can identify real differences that kids have in their learning experience.

I grew up in a situation where we did not have those resources, and no one identified those differences, and it wasn't until much later that I was like, oh yeah, there's some real issues here.

And so, you know, the books, and there's been multiple books since then, but they're not like solving childhood literacy in our country, but it's another tool for teachers, and I just got back from the Indiana

uh youth institute conference and spoke to a bunch of like they have this beautiful conference they do it was their monday um with all educators and youth workers and everybody and spoke to them about these books and just it's just all adding to the conversation and trying to get kids to open up and talk about what's going on with them and what struggles they might be having in a classroom that they're unable to articulate

Yes.

And also just I can't believe I'm here.

Yeah.

I was on stage at this thing.

I was on stage and I read, I was reading, well, who have you guys had before this who spoke at this conference?

And they were like, well, you know, we had Bill Nye a couple years ago.

And Maya Angelou came and spoke, LeVar Burton.

And I go, wow, you really...