“I try to get my son and I videotaped him and I said, ‘Listen, I got a present for you,'” Greenfield said. “And he goes, ‘Oh, is it a Lego video game?,’ which I don’t know if that’s even a thing, but he just was overwhelmed with the idea that he was about to get something.”
He added, “I said, ‘It’s a book.’ And he got so mad. He screamed and then he punched me.”
The 7-year-old might’ve had a change of heart since then, though, as Greenfield notes he “relates very much” to the second book.
“I was forced to dedicate it to him, but he loves it, and he takes such ownership of it,” Greenfield said. “And now he wants me to come read it to their school and he’s like, ‘Can I give this to my friend Rory?’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, man, whatever you want to do.'”