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Dwayne Reed is the author of Simon B. Reimann. Dwayne is America's favorite rapping teacher from Chicago. In 2016,

the music video for his hit song, Welcome to the Fourth Grade, went viral and has since been

viewed nearly two million times on YouTube. Now, two million and one,

because I watched it. Actually, I watched it a bunch of times with my kids. When he's not writing,

rapping, or teaching, Dwayne can be found presenting at educator conferences around the U.S. or loving

on his beautiful wife, Simone. Welcome, Dwayne. Thank you so much for coming on Moms. Don't Have Time to Read Books

to discuss Simon B. Ryman and everything else you're doing. Thank you so much for having me, Zivie.

I'm so excited. Speak about Simon and everything else is going on. I have to say this might have been

the most fun interview prep I've ever done watching all of your YouTube videos with my

kids and having us all sing around like, welcome to the fourth grade. Anyway, we were like all over

it. So much fun. Anyway, thank you for that. Entertainment. It was awesome. Thanks for scouting me out

over the internet. It's always funny when people,

they say, oh, I've met you, kind of, sort of. Me and my kids have met you, and we know all your

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