 This is a story. It's actually a coloring book that was created by tender press books and We want to thank our friends at tender press books for allowing us to share this beautiful book to promote the importance of addressing this crisis With children from a child's perspective But which also helps us to understand what our kids are going through and relate that to what we are going through as well I'll only read a few selected pages from the book and leave you in suspense So that maybe you can look it up and read it yourself And it's available online and you've got the website are on the screen. They're tender broke tender press books calm This book will help set up the tone for this presentation Thanks to the people at tender press books from zero to thrive from the University of Michigan and from Arizona State University Who created it so the book is entitled Georgie and the green the giant germ created by Julie the bowdo page safer, and I'm sorry about mispronouncing the names Sarah Stein Kate Rosenblum, and it's illustrated by a 12 year old Maja Rosenblum music. So Thank you for sharing your book So again, I'm gonna read just a few pages Georgie woke up excited to go to school as he bounced down the stairs His mom said Georgie no school today a germ is going around that makes people sick We have to stay home until the doctors make sure the germ is gone When he went to the kitchen for breakfast his mother said Georgie with this big germ We're gonna need to be really careful to wash our hands before we eat and when we come in from playing outside also Georgie looked at his hands for a long time, but he couldn't see anything on them at all This was all very confusing Not going to school made Georgie feel sad at first. He missed his friends and misses P his teacher Then he got to spend the whole first day with his mom and she even let him play some extra video games But then he stayed home from school the whole week and the week after that too and it started to feel like a really long time He wasn't even allowed to play outside with the kids in the neighborhood Everything felt different Why can't I go back to school? He asked his mom the germ is still out there Georgie She said every everyone has to stay home until it's gone Even though he still couldn't see the germ on his hands. The germ had started to feel really big Bigger than his house and bigger than his school. He wanted it to go away As the days went by Georgie had a lot of feelings Sometimes he felt happy that he didn't have to go to school But most of the time he was sad and mad and scared probably a lot of feelings that we were going through a lot of people Are going through I want to see my friends. He cried. Why won't the germ just go away? His mom was acting grumpy stop complaining. She huffed in a loud voice. This made Georgie worried What did I do wrong? He thought his mom was busy a lot She used to spend a lot of time reading to him giving him hugs and helping him feel safe But now she always seemed grouchy and told him go play I wish he was like she used to be he thought his tummy ached and he felt like crying a Lot of things that our kids are experiencing these days A lot of things that we're experiencing ourselves. So I'm gonna skip a few pages again. I'm not gonna read the whole thing I'm gonna go to this page Well, we we are at home. This is mom talking while we are at home Doctors and nurses and scientists are working hard to get rid of this term Georgie not everybody was still sad. I miss grandpa and mrs. P and my friends at school I know you miss them Georgie his mom said It's okay to be sad and to talk about it with me since we are missing them How about we let them know that we're thinking about them. I know they really miss you, too Georgie's stomach stopped hurting and he suddenly had a lot of energy. He jumped up excitedly I'm gonna draw a picture of mrs. P to show her when I go back to school and Off he ran to the crayon box Georgie drew the doctors and his mom fighting the germ and in his picture His mom was so big and she almost filled the whole paper So there's a couple of pages after that page, but I kind of again I'm kind of gonna leave you in suspense To let you look up the book find it and finish reading it yourself and to share it with others, of course And again our friends are at tender press really want this to go out and to share it with as many kids and families and people as you can