I just got back from Topaz Elementary School, where I read Robert Munsch’s Show and Tell for Mrs. Guiterrez’s fourth grade class for Read Across America Day.

This went tons better than Career Day at Hesperia High School last year: In addition to enjoying the book and being a great audience (even the few who didn’t like the book were exceptionally well-behaved), the fourth graders absolutely grilled me about being a reporter.

I think there might be a Hesperia Star column in next week’s paper about this, so I’ll save the details for then, but I will note that the kids were absolutely flabbergasted that I wasn’t rich.

Please direct similar sentiments to Editor Peter Day and Publisher Stephan Wingert.