


12) and they're asking for books instead of video games and that just makes my heart swell because I grew up working in a bookshop and I just really have an affinity for authors and the stories that they can tell," Harris adds. Outside of Harris reading them "The Fourth Suit" – they're on chapter 5, as of Monday – Gideon is rereading "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" and Harper is "powering through" the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series. Don't let the goofy video he posted Sunday of an extremely unimpressed Harper and Gideon fool you – both kids are big "Magic Misfits" fans. is testing those on set for the novel coronavirus "a lot" and folks in Germany are being respectful and "stepping in line for mask-wearing" even as new cases have significantly dropped in the country since its peak in April.īack at home, school started up this week for the twins, who Harris is thrilled are now both avid readers. Traveling is "cautious, but fine," he says, noting that Warner Bros. Harris, along with husband David Burtka, 45, and 9-year-old twins Harper and Gideon, have spent this unusual summer at their farmhouse on Long Island, New York, save for Harris leaving to film "The Matrix 4" with Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss in Berlin last month and again next week. "My real goal with the book was to make it as much of a diversion and a kind of escape as possible, while still maintaining a sense of values and of character and moral codes," Harris, 47, tells USA TODAY. His aim for the series was twofold: To write books that could help instill a love of reading in kids, and to create a story in which readers of all backgrounds could feel seen.

The fourth and final installment of actor/writer Harris' middle-grade fantasy series, " The Magic Misfits: The Fourth Suit," is out Tuesday (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 224 pp.). So let Neil Patrick Harris' new book help your child escape for a little while. The world is a hectic, scary place right now for everyone, kids included. Watch Video: How Neil Patrick Harris' kids and hobbies influenced his new book
