once again, brittney cooper. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> booktv takes hundreds of other programs throughout the country all year long as look at some the fence we will be covering this week. >> that's a look at some of events booktv will be covering this week. many of these events are open to the public. look for them to air in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> so you are probably wondering how this all started. i mean, writing a bunny book about the life of a vice president. so charlotte will take it from there. >> thank you everyone for coming. this is really cool and really special. definitely been a dream of mine since i was there very small to have a book out, especially a children's book. especially about -- and with my dad. it's really fun. i wanted to talk all of it about marlon in general because a lot of people asked how long we had him, how old he is in when we got him. always -- i i want to introduce you to them since he that here tonight. he's resting. he had a lot of press intervi