Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It is an honor to welcome everyone to the 71st National Book awards. I am Jason Reynolds coming to you live from washington dc go this is overnight but there is so much going on in the world this is our night and it is a big deal. It is so much of a big deal i woke up this morning anxious and nervous as usual. I always, mother and i am anxious. It is 7 00 oclock in the morning and she says oh no i said i am feeling anxious about tonight have to hope the National Book awards am calling you to see if you have advice for your child go she said that she always has been to make the call. Let me ask you something, son. What did i make you say every single night before you got into bed when you were little boy . I said i dont want to do this right now she said no dont know what did i. C. E. Make you say every night when you got into bed . I said you made me say i can do anything. Exactly you can do anything. You tell me this all the time on. But i never asked
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For a job. Well done. About more than a little. I didnt do this alone there, so. But stephen, she shares a lot of that. So what were going to talk about is memories. For the most part. And and these are, as i said, the lighthearted side. And have some slides already ready up there to indicate the kind of the connectivity here. But between the story beginning with the Landing Craft and going to the present, but then im not sure where i point this. There you go. So thats the cover of the new book that mike just mentioned. Anthat is piorl photographic essay with. A little slim slim history and its the next. This is the prequel. The sequel will be out in a couple of years. So and the story really has a couple of beginnings the first really goes back and i want spend a little bit of time with my friendship withen ambrat has preceded the the epiphanhe eureka moment. I would say, and goes back to 1971 when i felp as part of the Team Recruiting him to you, yknow, lsu in new orleans at that tim