6 Year Old Kids Think I’m Really Famous

I think one of the funniest things about going to schools and reading to the kids is the expectation the kids have of my celebrity.

I don’t know if this comes from teachers trying to get the kids excited about reading, or just the fact that a new person is in the school they’ve never seen before.

I eventually have to explain that I am not really famous, only about 9% famous. (based on a weird scale my business partner and I made up)

Once I did lie.  I told some 3rd graders I knew the Jonas Brothers, but only because I was asked to pretend to be famous to encourage a group of kids to think reading was cool by a frustrated teacher.

Kids often ask me if I know “other famous people”.  Some of these people have included:

Miley Cyrus, George Clooney, Justin Timberlake, Barack Obama, Jay-Z, anyone from Twilight,  and Oprah…

So to be honest:  Since I’ve been an author, I met the mayor once and

I did a piece of artwork for Paula Deen and she is basically white Oprah…So there.