When I started posting book-reviews to my YouTube channel at 12 years old, I was shy with glasses and a face full of metal. Fast forward a year into my journey as a book-review creator, I was able to reach out to the author of one of the books I reviewed and she graciously agreed to an interview with a 13 year old boy (still with glasses and a face full of metal) in her hometown of London. Fast forward another year, and the family of the late Leon Leyson, the youngest member of Schindler’s List and author of The Boy on the Wooden Box (my very first book review) found my video and reached out to share how happy they were to see this powerful story loved and shared.

Yet another year later, I transitioned to making comedy skits with the central theme of books, and since then have posted over 110 videos in this new style, finding varying degrees of success along the way.

Around this time I started volunteering at the Book Truck, a similar program to Bailey's Books, except for teens. After a few different volunteer events, I decided to apply this concept to elementary school students, as I had the most knowledge of that age-range of books. On the heels of the Palisades fires, I reached out to the events coordinator at Marquez Elementary asking about a tentative event, and the rest is history.