. >> alex watson and his father, lynn university professor robert watson, talk about their campaign to get families to read and write together. the two have recently authored a book for children called "tsunami." it's about 50 minutes. [applause] >> thank you, and welcome, everyone. >> afternoon, everybody, thank you for coming. i'm alex, and this is my father, robert. [laughter] all right. so the year was 1946. world war ii had just ended, and the people of hawaii finally felt safe. unknown to them, 2,000 miles away near alaska there was a different kind of threat. in the middle of the night, there was a major undersea earthquake which triggered a 1 100-foot wave completely destroying a lighthouse, and the lighthouse keeper was swept out to sea. the massive wave headed straight for hawaii. without warning, the first waves hit at dawn, they were only 2 feet high. it was april 1st, so some thought it was an april fool's day joke, but it wasn't. it was picked by the early hawaiians because -- [inaudible] outside the bay sits a small island called coconut island. the problem with the bay