The Amy Hawk Interview.

Uh, but when you imagine a child holding, uh, The Tales of Rumpus, what is the one belief about themselves that you hope feels a little stronger by the time they close the book?

I think they just find courage within themselves to do.

You know, maybe it's just some kids aren't good readers, so maybe it's just that book brings out that spark in them where they wanna read the next one, or they had so much fun in the book that they wanna pick it up and read it every night, you know? But, um, there is a message for everybody in the book, and there's a lot of points where parents and children can have really good conversations about, um, oh, uh, Kaitlyn and King Dylan are fighting, and guess what? I fought with my parents, and you're gonna fight with me, but if we stick together and we're a team, then, you know, we'll figure out how to navigate it.

So, you know, there's- adults are finding it as exciting as the kids are because there's a lot of lessons in it that we've all learned growing up.

And so I think it provides a lot of, uh, opportunities for parents to have conversations with kids that maybe we're not having anymore, you know? 'Cause everybody's so internet-bound, um, that we don't sit around at the dinner table and have conversations like we did when I was a kid, you know?

Yeah.

Uh, sometimes I don't think we can.

No, I don't think we can.

We want to-

Mm-hmm

... to have that time because it seems like every single thing in our society is filling some block of time.

It is, and you know, we're so used to this.

I call it the drive-through mentality.

I mean-

Hmm

... we're seeing it in medicine now.

Um, they wanna tell you what they want, what tests they want, even though it's... you know, they just Googled it, um, or ChatGPT'd it, you know? And so nobody's willing to...

There, there's just that stop, where the internet has made us stop that thought process, and we're just used to instant, instant, you know.

We sit down to dinner, we order dinner, and then we dive into our phones, and if you go to a restaurant or you go anywhere, there's families of four sitting around a table and nobody's saying a word to each other.

So we are losing the art of conversation, and in that we're losing the opportunity for people to have really meaningful conversations.

And, you know, we're isolated more and more because of the internet, and that wasn't its original intent I don't believe, but I think that's the outcome.

Yeah.

I agree.

I definitely agree.

Uh, but when you imagine a child holding, uh, The Tales of Rumpus, what is the one belief about themselves that you hope feels a little stronger by the time they close the book?

I think they just find courage within themselves to do.

You know, maybe it's just some kids aren't good readers, so maybe it's just that book brings out that spark in them where they wanna read the next one, or they had so much fun in the book that they wanna pick it up and read it every night, you know? But, um, there is a message for everybody in the book, and there's a lot of points where parents and children can have really good conversations about, um, oh, uh, Kaitlyn and King Dylan are fighting, and guess what? I fought with my parents, and you're gonna fight with me, but if we stick together and we're a team, then, you know, we'll figure out how to navigate it.

So, you know, there's- adults are finding it as exciting as the kids are because there's a lot of lessons in it that we've all learned growing up.

And so I think it provides a lot of, uh, opportunities for parents to have conversations with kids that maybe we're not having anymore, you know? 'Cause everybody's so internet-bound, um, that we don't sit around at the dinner table and have conversations like we did when I was a kid, you know?

Yeah.

Uh, sometimes I don't think we can.

No, I don't think we can.

We want to-

Mm-hmm

... to have that time because it seems like every single thing in our society is filling some block of time.

It is, and you know, we're so used to this.

I call it the drive-through mentality.

I mean-

Hmm

... we're seeing it in medicine now.

Um, they wanna tell you what they want, what tests they want, even though it's... you know, they just Googled it, um, or ChatGPT'd it, you know? And so nobody's willing to...

There, there's just that stop, where the internet has made us stop that thought process, and we're just used to instant, instant, you know.

We sit down to dinner, we order dinner, and then we dive into our phones, and if you go to a restaurant or you go anywhere, there's families of four sitting around a table and nobody's saying a word to each other.

So we are losing the art of conversation, and in that we're losing the opportunity for people to have really meaningful conversations.

And, you know, we're isolated more and more because of the internet, and that wasn't its original intent I don't believe, but I think that's the outcome.

Yeah.

I agree.

I definitely agree.