is. >> oh, suehela, yes. my daughter has seen the book, she is very proud of the fact that her name is in it. and she reminds her first grade class all the time, my name is in the book. [laughter] she likes, her favorite page is the page where she's drinking moon dew from a silver teacup. do you guys like that page too? now, she puts on tea parties. they're very elaborate with her 2-year-old little sister. and i think this is about, you know, it makes her feel very grown up. and she hosts the party, and she loves that part of it. yes. and we've talked about some of the other things in the book, you know, some of the challenging things, the difficult things. and my feeling is this is definitely a book to be shared with our children, and we don't need to talk about all of those things at once. parents and children can decide when they're ready, but she definitely does feel a sense of responsibility for others, caring. she works to help and serve, so she contributed to efforts to raise money for the survivors of

anyway, i want to make room now for your questions, and i have, by the way, some of suehela's friends here, i see. nice to see you. and mine. thank you. thank you all so much for coming. does anyone have any questions? does anybody have any questions? yes. >> um, why did you write the book? >> i want today write -- that's a very good question. i wanted to write the book because i lost my mommy when i was 25, and although i was a grown-up, i still needed her. and i missed her. so i wanted, when i became a mommy myself, to share with my daughters and the president's daughters, my nieces, some thought about who she was and what she was like, because i knew she would have loved to meet them and to know them. and she would have given them so much and made them feel so strong. and so that is one of the reasons i bought the book -- i bought the book, i wrote the book. [laughter] thank you. and i, i also wrote the book because i'm a teacher. i'm an educator. and one of the things that i want to happen is for us to think about the world from more than one point of view. so you see in the begin