July 2, 2008
The Fonz Goes Hybrid in British Tour
Aaay “The Fonz” has left his leather jacket and bad boy motorcycle to rest in piece in the past as he’s touring schools across the U.K. in a Lexus RX 400h, in support of the Government’s 2008 National Year of Reading. You may not know this, but Henry Winkler, world famous for his role as “The Fonz” in the hit TV show Happy Days, is now the author of a best-selling series of children’s novels about a boy called Hank Zipzer, the World’s Greatest Underachiever. The novel is one of the widest read weekly children’s publications in Britain . Winkler says that he based Hank on his own experiences as a boy with dyslexia.