we will take a quick break and return o children's author, sandra feede, in a moment. > >> good morning and welcome back to mosaic. i'm honored to be your host. we are in the middle of a wonderful conversation with children's author sandra feeder and her book called bitter and sweet. it is about a young girl named hannah who moves because her father gets a new job and she is going through the transition of a new a new school. the title "bitter and sweet" gets woven in throughout the story and it has a wonderful ending. i wonder if you can give us a peek to how that evolves so anyone who is listening is enticed to go out and buy the book. >> bitter and sweet first refers to how she feels about moving.t moving. first she can only see the bitter, the hard parts of the move. she does find the sweet and one of the ways is a friend gives her a gift of hot cocoa. at first, she doesn't realize she needs to add some sugar to the cocoa. so the cocoa itself turns out bitter which reinforces her feelings.e feelings. she soon realizes she needs to add the sweet to it. t it. it is when she feels out

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feed me and be nonstop. i have a video. laugh about it. so called. >> sandra: sweet summer baseball moment.'s doing fine. caden, great sportsmanship. see you tonight on "gutfeld." >> mike: thanks, sandra. inflation upping stress levels for parents with school about to start. basic supplies are hitting families hard. lydia hu has more. lydia, how much are we talking? >> hey there, mike. such a stressful time to see prices high for parents as they're sending kids back to school. take a look at this basket of basic back-to-school items like notebooks, binders and folders. it would cost parents 15% more this year to buy them items than last year. that's according to a firm called data weave. price compared this year to last year. they found the price of a notebook, about 31% over last year. pencils and pens up 25%. because of the increases, we're expecting consumers to pull back, saving where they can. electronics are expected to go down about $100. pull-back on backpacks and shoes. maybe parents are saying you're going to use what you used last year. masks, not mandated. that's a good things.

sandra. it has been a long night and long morning. we're anxiously waiting to see what will happen. we have our eyes on a live feed in taiwan right now as local media there is reporting that she is set to touchdown really at any moment right now and that she has plans to meet with the president of taiwan tomorrow. but the speaker's office here on the hill still very quiet. radio silent about the speaker's potential visit to taiwan. now, it is night in taipei. we show taiwan's tallest building flashing the words speaker pelosi, welcome to t.w. that's for taiwan. flight tracking website this morning have been following a military aircraft that is believed to be carrying house speaker nancy pelosi after she wraps up her visit to malaysia. and those sites indicate that plane took the long way around the philippines avoiding the south china sea as it approaches taiwan from the east. just waiting and watching to see if it might land in taipei any moment now. chinese spokesperson saying such a visit would lead to serious consequences. yesterday the white house indicated china could even fire missiles into the taiwan stra