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Hell Loen, Good morning you two. How are you doing? We are

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doing well. Errow, great to
be connected. Absolutely, I've been wanting

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to talk with you guys for a
long time because I I'm going to be

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just like probably everybody else, is
this story about you? Did you have

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this moment? Because this moment here
feels way too real. The book is

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just amazing. Thank you Arrow and
you you know you hit the nail on

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the head. This is absolutely like
the conversation that really really happened for you

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to share this story. I mean, I can't imagine sitting down with with

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with Henry and saying let's let's let's
create a story and and and not only

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that, let's go ahead and let's
start getting readers at a young age that

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are going to soon to be adults, and these books are going to be

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there for their children. Yeah.
That right, I mean, that's that

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is the magic of remembering a good
idea and then writing it down and then

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sharing it with the world. And
uh, you know this is it's it's

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kind of amazing to have a conversation
and then realize, you know what,

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you're actually having a conversation with the
entire because you know, our books my

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books have been translated into over twenty
five languages, and this book already has

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been has We've sold the rights to
probably seven different publishers around the world,

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so you know, the book's not
even out yet and it's been translated into

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other languages. So we are thrilled. I love the title. How did

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it come to you? All we
need is love and a really soft pillow.

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I love my pillow. My pillow
is my life. Right. Pillows

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are just a wonderful thing. I
think I count it's about six on my

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bed recently. And yeah, pillows
are awesome. And Henry loves his pillow.

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Henry loves sleep. I mean,
he's how old are you now?

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Forgot like fifty something fifty? You
seem like you're fifty years old, Henry.

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How long have we been working together? Twelve years? Twelve, yes,

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twelve years. So Henry, Henry
loves sleeping, he loves uh,

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he loves his pillow. And we, uh, we're yeah, so we're

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big fans of pillows. And that
was one of the inspirations for this book.

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Uh. We were on the beach
on Cape Cod during COVID really and

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of course we were dealing with that
that big old crazy storm that blew in

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for two or three years and we
had this just amazing little father son moment.

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Walked along the beach and I just
told Henry and Henry, you know,

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life is good, you know,
life is it's this is going to

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be okay. All shall be well. I said, you got me,

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I've got you, We've got love. What else do we need? Which

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is a rhetorical question. But then
Henry, what did you you chirped in?

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What did? All we need is
love in a soft pillow of course

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soft? Yeah, So so I
said, well, this is true,

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we need a soft pillow. So
and then then we started adding to that

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list, you know, a bar
of chocolate, a roof of books,

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and a roof right so uh and
then by the end of the book,

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they've they've got, you know,
lots and lots of stuff collected and uh

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and then a I don't know if
you want us to share the ending or

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no? No, because I because
I love the ending and I don't want

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to spoil that for readers and stuff
because I want them to be able to

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get to that final page and feel
what I hope that I felt in my

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heart because I mean it because to
me it is. It is a chapter

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of life and sitting down with with
a very little one, uh and reading

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this story. I mean it's because
it teaches them we're going to build,

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we're going to replenish, we're going
to we're going to have all of this.

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And that's what I love about this
story is that you do it in

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steps. Mmm. Yeah, yeah, the the uh and again without giving

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things things away. Uh. You
know, the there is this collection of

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stuff that at the end of the
book they don't have anymore, right,

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and they do have to rebuild.
But where do you rebuild from? If

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you've got someone who loves you and
cares about you, that's exactly where to

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start, you know that hug after
you know whatever, you know, storm

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has blown in through your your life. Sometimes there are physical storms now with

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climate change. I mean, there
are a lot of people who they have

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lost everything, they've lost everything through
fire or storm. And then there are

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people who lose things because you know, they're financial difficulties or it's you know,

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a relationship that they've lost and they've
got to go through a lot of

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trauma, a lot of storms.
And you know, in air books,

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we use metaphor to help people deal
with some big problems, big you know,

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some big scary problems, and you
know, you can do it in

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a whimsical, very gentle, caring
way. And that's the opportunity with a

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good picture book is that you can
have those meaningful conversations with kids who are

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kind of still figuring out life and
like, how you know, is this

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the end? You know, are
we ever going to have our things back?

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Or there are things going to feel
better? And you know, so

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we hope that this book helps people
feel, you know, lead with that

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message, all shall be well as
long as you've got someone who loves you.

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Let me ask you a question,
are you going to market these characters

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and make them into like squishable pillows? Because I mean I could I could

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totally see these two being squishables that
you know. Uh, several people have

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asked where when are the plush Plush's
coming? And they are definitely we you

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know, I wanted to design these
characters, and actually Henry did a couple

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of sketches and I add a little
fur to the characters and by the time

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we finished, I'm like, Henry, these these I want these as as

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uh and they would actually make good
pillows too, So state, Stay tuned.

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We actually Scholastic, who is Eric
Fadu's publisher of this book, for

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a promotional item. They they took
some of the artwork from the book and

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created pill cases, so they've been
sprinkled across the country. If you're lucky

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enough to go to an independent bookstore
near you, they may actually have one

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of these limited edition pillowcases. But
honestly, now that I've seen my stuff

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on on pillowcases and I think I'm
ready to do bed sheets and curtains and

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I'd love it. I'd love to
do all that. You guys have got

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to come back to this show anytime
in the future. I love where your

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heart is, and I know that
there's going to be more and more and

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more books. Absolutely, we got
more, more in more in store.

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So thank you for letting us share
our story with uh. Yeah, all

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we need is love and a really
soft pillow. I love it. Be

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brilliant today, Okay, you two, thank you. Thanks Erro