has been entertaining all of us, from her un-gortable performance as the magical british nanny "mary poppins" to the governess in "the sound of music" and the original elijah dolittle on "my fair lady" on broadway. but she's also written two television books. and her and her daughter have a library to comfort kids, and this is poignant now as families all over america continue to shelter in place. >> the meal was delicious. where did you get jam, the mouse asked? a tablecloth. the duck munched a crust. you would be surprised what you find inside of a wolf. it's nice, said the mouse. it's home, said the duck. >> well, i am completely enchanted, joining me now is the one and only dame julie andrews and her daughter children's book author, co-author emma walton-hamilton. welcome to both of you. you've been writing books together for years but for you now to be reading books to children when so many children are, you know, without public school, without private school, you know, at home, it's just wonderf wonderful. julie, the inspiration behind this. i know you've been doing it for a while, but

you need some stuff you know i like shoes on my bicycle in my house but i'm still with mary poppins and the water on a novice is good as a feast. to me oftentimes happiness is found in the things that you didn't. find positive so just to give you an example recently one evening i was out with my kids we'd taken a walk to the park and we were walking home and we've had a lot of what we call fireflies lightning bugs for bugs that light up in the evening. and so we spent 45 happy minutes catching fireflies we played with them for a while before we let them go. it's those quiet moments when everything seems to be working well together you're enjoying the people you're with you're enjoying the activity you're doing and oftentimes it's found in those situations that you can't buy your. course. 8. furnishers best there ever there is a society of people who have crossed for materialism and consumerism found it to not be the answer of happiness and peace and perhaps that will be deferred gate that opens them up to finding answers not an external but finding much more answers within one's own sel

families bond during these difficult times actress julie andrews famous for play such iconic roles as mary poppins and maria von trapp. >>started a new podcast reading children's books andrews says that the pandemic is giving parents a time to get back and share time with their children. >>but i do think it's really wonderful that the game act to sharing yeah. i think is that you control the is and discuss reducing its love it that is kind of things at the moment in full force it seems. >>andrew says she's working with her daughter who was a children's author to work on that podcasts kron four's also saluting the class of 2020 every night we're shining a spotlight on a specific senior and tonight. >>it is russell merah siguen russell went to castro valley high school and has committed to attend you see or vine this fall go and eaters he plans to major in applied mathematics mathematics rafter russell says he currently holds get this a 4.5 gpa congratulations russell good job. >>and you can submit a graduate just go to kron 4 dot com find salute to grads twenty-twenty under new submit a photograph

. >> you know what, mary poppins said it best, a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.ty like walt disney putting the monorail out to show how urban transit can work, if creativity can lead to these solutions, we have to do it in a way that's seamless for the guests to make it a game, make it fun. stuart: disney can do that better than anybody. >> it's a great time to be creative. a great time to be a designer. stuart: it was a great time to have you on the show. thank you very much for coming. we are obliged to you. thank you very much. >> thank you so much. appreciate it. stuart: see you soon. look, i'm breaking in early because i've got news breaking from hong kong. susan, fill me in. susan: we just heard from secretary of state mike pompeo and he just sent a letter out to congress, again certifying that hong kong is not being left independent. he says after careful study of developments over the reporting period, i certify to congress today that hong kong does not continue to warrant treatment under u.s. laws in the same manner as u.s. laws would dictate in the same