Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.

You are a human animal.

You are a very special breed.

Or you are the only animal.

Who can think, who can reason, who can read.

From KCRW, Santa Monica, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.

Today, I'm very thrilled.

It's a special show.

I have my beloved friend Francoise Muni here perceiving a lack in the world of children's books,

Francois decided to publish a series of children's books that will be continuing.

They are called tune books, and they will be coming out, well, around how many?

The goal is to actually do six books a year, three in the spring and three in the fall.

I hope I can sustain this.

This is what's happening this year, and that's what we're planning for next year.

And what is a tune book?

The books were born, the idea for the books, the need for the books,

date back to the time where our kids were just at the age of learning to read.

And we have two kids, and the older one, when she was told by the teacher in first grade,

oh, by January you will know how to read.

She just paid attention to the letter forms and we'd always been reading with her.

She attended to it and the little light bulb.

That magical moment happened and then she started reading.

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