Extra Extra! Viral Video Sparks Middle Grade Debut! A Q&A with Dwayne Reed of Simon B. Rhymin’

Who amongst you remembers this?

Cute, right? Well that little homemade video by 4th grade teacher Dwayne Reed currently clocks in at a whopping 1.8 million views on YouTube. And ever since its massive viral success, Mr. Reed has been busy. He teaches, sure, but he also presents at educator conferences across this great big beautiful country of ours.

You see where this is going. Yep. Dude wrote a book. Now take a look at this cover and see if you can see what element popped out at me ...