In the last 3 weeks on the HILO BOOK TOUR I have spoken to at least 3,000 school children. I can tell you the following:
1. Kids are awesome.
2. Explaining the expression, “The tip of the iceberg” requires visual aids, but worth the effort. 3. Girls and boys say “Awww” to the exact same things.
4. Saying the word “butt” in any context gets a laugh.
5. Very few children know the story of KING KONG. (I put in a lot of work to rectify this. You’re welcome)

HILO BOOK 5 Then Everything Went Wrong
Book tour “gratuity tweet” catch up!
Thank you to everyone who picked up Hilo Book 5 this week!
Thank u to the bookstores who organized everything! Thanks to the amazing students,teachers & librarians of all the schools I visited! Thanks to @BooksIncEvents for the spectacular launch party and the awesome school visits! An amazing opening day!

It was 24 years ago today that Pedro Zamora died.
A hard truth is that he’s been gone longer than he was alive. He leaves behind an eternal legacy that still inspires people all over the world as well as a generation of young people who weren’t born when we all came to know him. We still miss him. I wish he had been to our wedding. I wish he could meet our children. I wish he could have been a father. I wish he could still fight for us. We need heroes.
He’d be proud of what’s been achieved. He’d be enraged with all the injustice.
We fight in his memory.