[there's some nodding and headshaking and some nodding corrected to headshaking and it all leads to a puzzled head-tilt as he finally gets his nodding, shaking head above the water of all this.]

Um. I-I make things. Scarves. Sweaters, uh--well. Just, just the one time. It's just small things. Right now. Sorry, um. The books? [he squints.] I don't...I haven't been to a school, so I don't think they're school books. [they definitely are.]

I can show you? They're...they're upstairs.