. >>> it's fascinating about walter brooks is that when we go to a bookstore, or even search the web, we see a book in a person's name or a couple of authors and naturally assume that this person is an author and the traditional sense of writing but in fact both of you right out of different personal experiences and in that way seek to in some ways to educate and expose people to different ideas and understandings in some ways i think the model of what people think of as a traditional full- time author of the next 11 and writing books. >>> i came to this to a background in journalism faster with words but a little different asserted at the stanford daily and became a news assistant at the new york times and washington d.c. and they're definitely learned about the power and importance that words have in our culture and worked for some newspapers in california and was able to transition to children's books that is been a real joy for me and a different format and to have to say for like the luckiest person compared to the road of journalism we're fact checking it to make things up and i