>> Are you guys ready? Get your wiggles out.
Get your questions ready.
We're just about to meet the authors.
>> Ten, nine, eight, seven,
six, five, four, three, two, one.
>> Hello from Indiana in the United States.
>> Hola from Puerto Rico.
>> Hello from Nigeria.
>> Hello from Serbia.
>> Hello from Egypt.
>> Hello from India.
>> Hi from Georgia.
>> Hello from Los Angeles,
and welcome to the thousands of kids, parents,
and teachers watching us today from around the world.
My name is Francesco Sedita from Penguin Random House
coming to you from the Microsoft
Technology Center in California.
We are so thrilled to be here today to bring you
this special broadcast in
celebration of Skype in the Classroom's Literacy Month.
We want to hear from you so send
us any questions you have through
the chat tool to the right or
via Twitter at #Skype2Learn.
We'll try to answer as many questions as we can.
Now, without any further delay,
let me introduce to you some friends of mine,
authors Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver.
>> Hi.
>> Hi, guys.
>> Nice to be here. Hi, Henry. It's nice to see you.
>> How are you?
>> I'm good.
>> Nice to see them.
>> They're beautiful.
>> Hi.
>> So, we've worked together for almost 10 years.
>> Yes.
>> You guys have worked together for how long?
>> 2003.
>> Yes. Fifteen beautiful, lovely, happy years.
>> I could not figure that out.
I just knew it was 2003.
>> I'm the math guy.
>> And you're the co-authors of the Hank Zipzer series,
which is a TV series in the UK, and now in the US.
>> Right. >> Congratulations.
>> Thank you.
>> So, we know that the character in
the books is based really on you and your childhood,
Henry, and how you
had so many struggles learning to read and write.
>> Right,.
>> Can you just talk a little bit about
how that idea came to be and how
it sort of inspired Hank
and all of these fantastic books that you've written?
>> Somebody, a wonderful man by the name of Alan Berger,
not just somebody, suggested to
me that I write books about my dyslexia.
So, he then introduced me to Lin.
Lin and I had lunch.
The fish was horrible.
But the meeting was great.
And I started to tell Lin about my life at the table.
>> And I was so moved by Henry's story,
because he can't say it himself,
but Henry is one of the icons of show business.
And here, he had reached that pinnacle,
and yet he felt very insecure about
his own inabilities to learn.
And so, that was so moving to
me that I was immediately taken in by that and thought,
we need to create this character,
Hank, who is smart, like him.
>> Resourceful.
>> And intelligent like him,
creative like him, funny like him.
And yet- you can pay afterward.
And yet has learning challenges.
>> Because I literally,
I'm in the bottom three percent academically in America.
Math was hard. English was hard.
I cannot spell even today.
I was great at lunch.
>> And still is, I might add.
>> Yeah, I like lunch. I'm a good eater.
>> Well, okay. So, let's talk about that for one second.
So you meet, you eat terrible fish together.
>> Yes. >> You had the idea for Hank.
>> Right.
>> And now, we're so many books later,
15 years later,
what does it look like when you work together?
What does that day look like?
>> I drive from my house across the city.
I go to Lin's office.
Lin's office is very near
Paramount Studios where they
make all those wonderful movies.
I sometimes get us coffee.
>> He usually brings
some very delicious treats
from a wonderful bakery nearby.
So, we start our day in a happy mood.
>> Yes. And then,
I sit in a rocking chair.
And finally, after 15 years,
Lin has gotten me a comfortable cushion.
It was a little tough on my tushy.
>> Which he complains about for 15 years.
And you're actually not that
happy with this cushion either.
>> I'm not bad with this cushion.
>> Okay, good.
>> Because I took a cushion
from another place in your office.
Now, I have two cushions.
So, I sit there in the rocking chair.
Lin sits at the computer.
I start talking, Lin types.
Lin has an idea, I stop talking, Lin types.
Lin reads back to me what we have both come up with,
and then we argue over every word.
>> Well, argue is a tough word.
I think we debate.
>> We debate.
>> We have spirited debates.
>> We have spirited debates.
>> We respect each other.
>> Yes, we do.
>> We disagree with each other.
>> Yes, we do.
>> And eventually, one of us wins.
>> And then, at the end of the day, we have four,
six, eight pages that never existed before, right?
And at the end of about three or four months,
there was a whole book.
We have written 29 books together,
Hank Zipzer and Here's Hank.
Every single one, when we finish,
is so touching to me. I don't know what to do.
>> Yeah.
>> When we get the final book,
Henry opens up the box,
picks up the book, smells it.
>> Yes, I do.
>> And holds it to his heart.
>> Yes, I do. And I used to rub it all over my body.
>> Well, it's clear.
So working together is also
something that we see in the Hank books as well.
So obviously, you guys working together has really
influenced how Hank works with his friends.
What are some of the main messages that
you guys try to communicate in the books?
>> I will tell you,
one of them is, it does not matter how you do in school.
It does not matter if school is difficult for you.
Your mind, your thoughts are brilliant.
Your imagination is brilliant.
And your grades in school do not define you.
>> And furthermore, each person,
each human being on
this earth has his or her own fingerprint.
Each of us is unique and special.
And what our job is,
as human beings, is to look inside ourselves,
find what we're good at,
what we'd love to do,
and then put that out into the world.
Sometimes, that's based on
reading and how you do in school.
Sometimes, it's based on other talents, art or music.
Sometimes, it's based on who you are as a feeling person,
be it a great friend,
or loving your family.
So, each of us, our job is
to do what we're good
at and to do the best we can with it.
>> And here it is, every single one
of you watching today,
being with us today,
you know what you're great at.
And we don't all have to be doctors.
We don't have to be lawyers.
We don't have to be electricians.
We can be anything because the world needs
every single thing you're good
at if we're going to remain a wonderful world.
>> Wow. Oh my god.
Guys, that's really great.
>> It's true.
>> I know it's true. And hearing
you say it is so special, and I think,
you can feel it in every
single one of the books that you've written,
and I think that the students out
there really can relate to that.
And over the past few weeks,
we've been getting lots of questions
from students around the world.
So, I thought maybe we could answer a few right now.
>> Oh, we'd love to hear from them.
>> We'd love to.
>> All right, so the first one
is a question from the United Kingdom.
>> Hello, my name is Eve and I'm five years old,
from Danesfield School in England.
My question is,
how many books did you write and which is your favorite?
>> That was a wonderful question.
We have written, how many books now?
>> We have written 32 books together,
31 of them are available out in the marketplace,
and the 32nd is coming out in the fall.
>> Next September.
>> Yes.
>> Now, do I have a favorite?
I don't have a favorite.
I think, every time we write a book,
every time a new one comes out, this is it.
This is the best one.
And then we write another one.
And I think, this is it. This is my favorite.
It's like my children.
I have three wonderful children
and I can't tell you which one is my favorite.
But you don't have favorites.
>> What I have are favorite characters in the books.
>> Who are they?
>> Well, Hank, because he's based on you.
>> Yes.
>> And I love Ashley.
>> I like Ashley, too.
>> And I love Franky.
>> Can I just say one thing?
Ashley and Franky are
his best friends, Hank's best friends.
They are not dyslexic but they love Hank.
They take care of Hank. They try to protect him.
>> And that's why I love them
because what I love is friendship.
And I hope all of you do, too.
It's the best thing in the world to have
friends who love you,
whom you love, and who we accept for who they are.
>> Okay, so, just accepting who they are.
So if you see somebody in your class or somebody in
your school who's having
trouble and you don't have trouble,
so you can either make fun of them which
makes them feel horrible,
or you can say, "You know what?
I know how to help that kid.
I know how to make that subject easier for that kid."
You feel good. They feel good.
Everybody feels good. I will feel good.
>> So, we have another question from a third-grader.
>> Okay.
>> Hi, I'm Sean from New York.
And my question is,
does all the funny parts in
your story actually happening in real life?
>> Well, that's a great question Sean.
We write fiction, and
fiction is when you make up stories.
So not everything happened in real life
but fiction comes from real life experiences.
I'll give an example. Maybe you want to give an example.
>> Maybe I do, maybe I don't.
>> Okay. Well, we're all waiting to see.
One of our books is called Here's
Hank and the title is "Stop That Frog".
And in it, Hank brings
the principal's frog home for the weekend.
>> Or the headmaster.
>> The headmaster. Yes.
>> Headteacher.
>> And the frog, he loses the frog.
It's the headmaster, the principal's
favorite pet and Hank loses it.
So, in my family,
we had a little frog when
my oldest son was very, very little.
The frogs name was Carcake.
It's a strange name.
>> That is a weird name.
>> I have a weird child,
but I love him nonetheless.
>> Carcake.
>> Carcake.
>> A cake you only eat in the car.
>> We don't know how it happened, it happened.
There it is, on the record.
One morning we woke up and Carcake had gone to
the great pond in the sky. Do you know what I mean?
>> I do.
>> Do you know what I mean?
>> Yeah.
>> My son was very
little at the time and we
didn't know how to break the news to him,
so we told him that Carcake.
>> Ate too much cake.
>> That Carcake had jumped out of his tank
and hopped out of the house and was
living in a puddle down the street.
When I told Henry that story he said,
We should put that in a book.
So then, months later,
here's a book called "Stop That Frog" about
Hank who loses a frog and
thinks he's living in a puddle down the street.
It's not exactly true,
but it starts with something.
>> He finds a gum wrapper in the puddle.
He finds a nickel in the puddle,
but not the frog.
And Sean, I just want to say,
I'm from New York too. Go New York.
>> Henry do you have a favorite?
>> I don't. I love these books.
I never thought that
I would be able to write a book in my whole life.
And because of my meeting Lin,
and my friendship with Lin,
and our partnership, we have
written all these books together.
It's one of the great accomplishments of my whole life.
I was always told that I would never achieve,
that I was stupid, that I was lazy,
I was not living up to my potential.
But inside I knew that can't be true.
I'm not stupid. And here we are.
>> Watch out he's going to start
rubbing a book against his sweater again.
>> And now we have actually another question
for you both from a student in India.
>> Hi, I'm Freida from [inaudible] school, India.
I would like to know what talent need
to be a good writer and how we learn to be a good writer.
>> That's a good one.
>> That is a great question.
I'm assuming that you would like to be a writer.
So, the main talent that you need is imagination,
and the great news is,
every single one of you has a great imagination.
You just need to learn to
use it and to feel free to use it.
And also, you need to practice.
Everything that you ever will be
good at comes from practice.
So if you use your imagination, and practice using it,
and practice creating stories, you're going to be great.
>> I'll tell you one more thing
that I've learned from Lin.
When we write, don't edit until you're done.
Just write whatever is coming to your mind,
and you will then read it back and you will see,
Oh, I don't need that sentence.
Oh, I love this sentence.
Oh, I need to add to this sentence.
If you want to be a writer that means that
you have wonderful stories to tell. Bingo.
>> And sometimes, I think,
you need something to get you started.
And you know a great way to get things started.
>> A candy bar.
>> A candy bar is really good.
>> A Milky Way.
>> A Milky Way is really good.
Also, I think when you find people to
work with and write with, you know,
writing contests in your country are
a great way to start. You know, here in the U.S.
I know you guys just announced
Roald Dahl's Imaginormous challenge.
You know Penguin and Microsoft are
so proud to be sponsoring this contest.
Can you tell us a little bit more about how that works?
>> Okay. All you have to do is write
100 words about your idea.
Just what you would like the book
or the musical or the story to be.
And then Lin and I are going to
judge the literate part, the literacy part.
So, you will write 100 words,
anything that comes to your mind,
about a story you'd like to tell.
We will pick a winner and the winner,
this is amazing, gets their own e-book published.
>> So awesome. I love it.
>> We're really excited to
see all the ideas that come in and to
get inside the imagination
of all of these wonderful kids.
>> That's great. Here we have
another question and this one is for you Henry.
>> Okay.
>> Hello, my name is Benny Auslander.
I live in Carmel, Indiana.
And did other kids treat you
differently because you had dyslexia?
>> Benny Ben, that is a great question.
Let me say that I went to a all boys school.
It was a private school.
I wore a blue blazer, gray slacks,
a tie every day and I was in the bottom of my class.
So some kids bullied me
in that I was not great at geometry.
I took geometry for four years, same course.
I did not graduate with my class.
I didn't get my diploma.
I got it in the mail.
I finally passed geometry summer school
of my senior year in high school.
Here's the thing, that was 1963.
Nobody since 1963 until
today has ever said the word hypotenuse to me.
Here you know whether
you have a learning challenge or not.
You know you've got power,
you are powerful and you are smart,
and you are wonderful, Benny Ben.
>> Yeah, you know, I mean I think so many
of us have dealt with things in
school that it felt really challenging and
I think you know a lot of our viewers today feel that,
I think, we have hard times in school or we
see our friend's struggle with their work at times.
And I think, one of the things that I love so much
about the series here is that we
have really watched you guys
explore how Hank is
surrounded by a community that helps him,
and how he uses creativity to solve problems that,
you know, he feels really stuck with.
And you know, there are a lot of great tools out there to
help kids who have these challenges and one of them,
and we're so proud of this, is
the font that is used in the Here's Hank series.
So I thought maybe you could
talk a little bit about that.
So, for everybody out there a font is
a way that the letters are printed on a page.
>> So, this is Here's
Hank and I will just open the book here,
so that you can see what a page looks like.
So, you can see what we're trying to do is make the page
really friendly to your eyes
so that reading doesn't feel like a challenge.
So that you can focus on what's inside the book,
the ideas and the emotions and not on just the letters.
So, this font is called dyslexie and it
was created by a father,
who was also a typesetter,
who had children who were dyslexic.
And so, it's very,
it's accommodated for people who have
difficulty actually discerning the letters.
So for instance, the spacing is nice and wide,
the letters are weighted a
little bit more heavily at the bottom,
so they don't float up off the page.
The ascending strokes, like in T's and F's,
are taller and the descending strokes,
like in J's, go lower.
So it makes the whole experience
of reading much easier for you
and your eyes can relax and you
can focus on the wonderful part of reading,
which is the ideas, the humor,
the story, and the emotions.
>> Here's the great thing. This is international,
because the dad lives in Holland,
and here we are in America using this wonderful font.
I wish I had it when I was growing up.
>> It would have made it really much easier.
>> Oh my goodness.
Because all the close words,
and the words on the page,
and they would all start to swim and I would get tired,
I would fall asleep after a paragraph.
>> What about now? What about reading now?
>> Reading, is a little easier.
I can read thrillers.
I like to read suspense.
Somehow, my mind picks that up and every book that I
have read now is on my shelf like a triumph.
>> Yeah. You know technology is making
it easier to read for so many
of you out there watching us today,
and at Microsoft they created Microsoft learning tools.
And it can help you space out the words on
a page or change the color of the page.
You can even have it read aloud to you when you need it.
And so, what's nice about these kind of free technologies
is that it allows students to stay in the classroom.
And I think, obviously, when you were
a kid this would have changed your whole experience.
>> Because you know what, what I finally,
with my children I would always say, Oh,
you can't listen to the radio
when you're reading and whatever it is.
And then I realized, maybe the radio was making
a funnel of sound so that
my son could go into that funnel and learn.
And, technology, how wonderful it is.
It doesn't matter how you read,
all that matters is you get the information.
>> Yeah, absolutely.
It's sort of like putting on glasses
after not being not able to see
for a long time and I think that's
what's so incredible about the font,
about what we're talking about with the Microsoft tools.
I just think, it's such a
wonderful thing for kids in the classroom.
>> And I could just say this too
for parents and teachers.
I don't have a reading difficulty,
but I love the idea of being able to alter the page,
change the font and just make it a more
pleasant experience for my eyes.
So, even if you don't have a learning challenge,
the ability to alter what's on the page and to
have something that suits you is a huge advantage.
>> Absolutely. We have
a few more questions from students.
Our next question is from one of
our viewers in Wales, in the United Kingdom.
>> Hi, my name is Cath Jane and I'm 10 years old,
and I go to [inaudible] in Wales.
Me and my friends love writing short stories.
But this time we're writing a longer story,
but we're struggling with beginning the story.
If you have any advice on beginning
a story that would be great. Thanks.
>> So,
here's the thing that right
this is a little writer's trick.
We say to ourselves,
Begin on the day that's different.
What that means is that you start a story,
you have a character for the story.
You start a story on
the day something changes for the character.
You don't remember when you were little
and someone would tell you a story they say,
once upon a time there was a dinosaur.
One day, and when you hear that one day,
that means now we're starting the story.
One day, a giant comet came
out of the sky and headed
directly towards the dinosaur's cave.
Now we have a story because on that day,
one day, something different happened.
So if you think about that, who is your character,
and what is happening on that day at the beginning of
the story that's going to make that day different.
That will give you a place to start.
One other thing and that is,
you're going from short stories to
longer stories and that's
hard because short stories have a beginning and an end,
longer stories have a middle,
and all of us have problems with sagging middles.
Nothing personal. Not you, of course.
>> No.
>> Yeah, absolutely.
>> But what a great answer.
>> Thank you.
>> That's a great answer.
>> That was really great. I want to tell you also,
we had a story where Hank and his friends Frankie,
and Ashley, they started a magic business.
Frankie is a magician.
And there was a party that they wanted to
be the act at the entertainment,
but Harry the clown was hired.
So Lin came in and she said,
I know how to start the story.
Great news! Harry the clown has diarrhea.
And we were off and running and they,
Hank and his friends Frankie and Ashley were
hired as the entertainment for that party.
>> Yeah, diarrhea is different.
>> I'll tell you because poor Harry had to go home.
>> We have time for one more questions today,
but please remember to send your questions
in the chats here or via Twitter,
for Henry and Lin answer just following the broadcast.
This question is from Nigeria.
>> Okay.
>> Hello Mr. Henry and Mrs. Lin.
My name is Kunmi Olurinola and hello from Nigeria.
I think of a lot of things that are fun and interesting,
but how do I know if I should share those ideas with
others or if others would be interested in my ideas?
>> Okay. I'd like to answer this just for a moment.
I want to tell you something right now.
We've never met, I don't know you,
I can tell you your ideas are great,
your ideas are interesting,
your question is fantastic.
Here, you don't know until you try.
You have to have
the courage to try, you put it out there.
Sometimes I am an actor,
and I do comedy.
And sometimes when you're trying to be funny,
you don't know whether it's funny or not and you've just
got to throw it out there like dice.
And then it works or it doesn't work,
you go on to another idea.
But I'm telling you right now your ideas,
I can't wait to hear them, or see them,
or read them one day in
the world because I know your ideas are great.
>> And I'm just going to add
that when we heard your question.
>> Yeah.
>> I could feel both of us feeling your heart.
You opened your heart to us and you said,
I have things to share,
and that's what writers do,
that's what artists do,
and that's what people should be doing with each other,
opening your heart and sharing your wonderful ideas.
And I can't wait to hear them.
>> Yeah. What a great question.
>> Thank you so much for being with
us today for this Skype in the classroom event.
Before we end, we want to give you
a chance to take a selfie with the authors.
So get your cameras ready and everyone
gather around the screen in your classroom or at home.
We'd love to see your pictures from today
if your parents or teachers can
share them on social media.
All right, guys let's get ready for this.
>> I've been hearing from the kids, what great questions.
>> I know this is so great question so great and like
the world where everything is so
amazing that we can be based here in Los Angeles.
>> Makes us happy
that we have readers all over the world.
>> And talk to everybody.
>> Everyone.
>> About starting a story.
It's just one of my favorite answers ever.
It was beautiful.
>> One day is what changes it all, right?
>> And it all comes from Henry story being a true story.
So everyone feels the heart in it. Yeah.
>> All right, let's get ready.
>> Okay. >> Let's grab some books.
>> Saying that the emotion is true.
The comedy is exaggeration story.
>> Right.
>> All right. Is everybody ready?
Let's do this. Henry will count this down please.
>> Here we go, one, two, three
>> Say cheese.
>> Here's Hank.
>> Say Cheese Pizza. Say cheese and pepperoni pizza.
>> I love cheese pizza. I don't like pepperoni.
>> Don't say cheese and pepperoni pizza.
>> Thank you so much for
joining us for this global event.
And we'll soon be starting the live Twitter chat
to answer more questions.
If you enjoy live learning experiences,
your class can connect with authors,
scientists, animal experts,
and so many more
all year long through Skype in the Classroom,
so be sure to have your teacher
check out all of the adventures.
Henry and Lin will be on Twitter shortly.
>> Yes.
>> So please continue to send
your questions because we're going to
try to enter as many as we can.
You guys, thank you so much for being here.
>> Thank you. Bye for now.
>> Thank you for being here.
>> We'll see you on Twitter.
>> Bye guys. Thank you. Bye.
>> Bye.
>> Take care.
>> Good work.
>> Reading was hard for my brain.
>> Some people laugh whenever I read sometimes.
>> It highlights the words that know where I am.
>> And it's easy to focus on.
>> Now I can read 50 words a minute.
I was proud of myself.
>> With technology and education,
possibility becomes reality.
>> I want to read every book in here.
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