patterson is now the cochairperson with van patchett of the 2013 world book sight.o you want to talk a little bit about that? >> yeah, as far as i know this started in england and it's very effective in england because the government got involved in addition to all the booksellers and it really got well organized, to the point where basically every kid in the country gets a little bit of money to go in and buy a book and the bookstores sort of you know, price them in a nice way. this won't be as big yet but i think we are giving away half a million books, so it's a start. and once again, what we really need more than anything else is for the government to wake up for the various governments whether it's going to be -- whether you are states person or a federal person, it's got to be dealt with somewhere. and education, the same thing. i mean we are not figuring it out right for some reason. >> on a personal note, were you a strong leader when you were a kid? >> i was a strong reader and i it was a very good student but i was not a big reader. i grew up on comic book