Knowledge • Light • Love • Purpose

Every child deserves to be seen in the story.

Joyful children’s books that celebrate different ways of communicating, learning, leading, and belonging—one adventure at a time.

Stories can educate.

Understanding can grow.

Every voice can matter.

The Adventures of Zane & Zion™

Big-hearted stories for growing minds

Five-year-old twins Zane and Zion discover what it means to support one another while making room for independence, joy, sensory needs, communication differences, and everyday adventure.

My Twin, My Superhero book cover Book One

My Twin, My Superhero

A loving introduction to autism, sibling support, and kindergarten readiness.

Love • Independence • Family Buy Book One on Amazon
The 4 + 4 Community Field Day book cover Book Two

The 4 + 4 Community Field Day

An energetic celebration of adaptive play, teamwork, regulation, and community.

Movement • Teamwork • Belonging Buy Book Two on Amazon
Side by Side, When Plans Change book cover Book Three

Side by Side: When Plans Change

A reassuring story about disrupted routines, peer support, and finding a new path forward.

Flexibility • Support • Courage Buy Book Three on Amazon
Zion’s Words Are Still Here, Las palabras de Zion siguen aquí book cover Book Four • Bilingual

Zion’s Words Are Still Here

Las palabras de Zion siguen aquí—a bilingual story about communication, leadership, and making space for every voice.

Communication • Leadership • Inclusion Buy Book Four on Amazon
Where Did Great-Grandmama Go? book cover showing Great-Grandmama with Zane and Zion A Zane & Zion family story

Where Did Great-Grandmama Go?

With Grandma beside them, Zane and Zion make room for questions, tears, memories, and the love that stays with their family.

Grief • Family • Remembering Buy Now

Every Child

More stories where every child can belong

Meet Cyan, Abner, Abigail, Deklan, Bagsy, Yatto, and Tegston in joyful stories created to help children feel seen, understood, and celebrated.

Mama, I Have Notes! by Tatanisha Powell, featuring Cyan in his blue suit peeking over a notebook full of receipts
Featuring Cyan • Paperback

Mama, I Have Notes!

Cyan has his blue suit, his notebook, and plenty to report! When Mama’s Thanksgiving chitterlings send a strong smell through the house, this five-year-old has questions, complaints, and a few creative suggestions. What he wants most is to celebrate with his whole family—especially his cousins.

A warm, funny picture book featuring an autistic, twice-exceptional child, about sensory differences, family traditions, and the joy of being heard.

Family • Sensory Differences • Belonging Buy Now
Abner and the Blueprint Delivery hardcover book cover showing Abner carrying a rolled blueprint through town
Featuring Abner • Hardcover

Abner and the Blueprint Delivery

Seven-year-old Abner dreams of being a courier. When Dad’s playground plans need to reach the community hall by four, a startled pigeon sends the blueprint loose—and Abner’s watch seems stuck at 3:42. With help from Noel and Dad, he discovers that even a grand courier can have a crew.

Family • Teamwork • Belonging Buy Now
Bagsy: Five Stories in One, an AAC-Compatible Reader in the Mini Readers and Mini Leaders series
Mini Readers • Mini Leaders

Bagsy: Five Stories in One

Five Bagsy stories together in one AAC-compatible reader for shared reading and communication.

Early Reading • Communication • Five-Story Collection Buy Now
Introducing Yatto & Tegston

Yatto and Tegston: Safe Together

A tender, inclusive story about Yatto, a joyful three-year-old with Down syndrome and autism, and Tegston, his well-loved patchwork Stegosaurus. Through gestures, short words, meaningful sounds, sensory-aware play, and affection, their friendship shows that communication and belonging can take many forms.

Communication • Sensory-Aware Play • Belonging Coming Soon
Featuring Tegston

Tegston’s Little Lessons

A Mini-Reader Series

A companion collection of short, accessible early-reader stories featuring Tegston. Each little lesson explores practical social-emotional ideas—like caring for treasured belongings, waiting, repairing after mistakes, and showing love through everyday actions.

Care • Patience • Everyday Love Coming Soon
Saturday Mornings Had a Sound book cover, showing childhood friends dancing and riding a Big Wheel at Davies South Terrace

AN ILLUSTRATED MEMOIR FOR ADULTS

Saturday Mornings Had a Sound

An Illustrated Memoir of Growing Up at Davies South Terrace

Big Wheels, Double Dutch, Latin music across the parking lot, and the streetlights calling us home. Return to Davies South Terrace in a colorful illustrated memoir about friendship, family, and the feeling of belonging.

Veluneli Family Reading & Communication Program

Read together. Communicate every way.

A family-centered reading experience that helps children participate through speech, AAC, pointing, gestures, movement, drawing, and shared attention. Each story creates simple opportunities for families to connect, practice communication, and celebrate every child’s voice.

ReadEnjoy inclusive stories together.
ConnectPause for conversation and shared attention.
CommunicateWelcome speech, AAC, gestures, signs, and pointing.
GrowBuild confidence, understanding, and belonging.

Suggested activity for parents

Build a Bagsy communication board at home

Bring familiar pictures from your Bagsy: Five Stories in One book into reading time and everyday play. Make a tabletop board, a refrigerator display, or a framed communication wall that fits your family.

For Bagsy 5-in-1 book purchasers and Bagsy pilot families: request the symbol pages by email using the form below. The 8 × 10-inch pages feature the character pictures, words, and illustrated signs.

Example Bagsy communication wall with thirteen framed picture-and-word pages and colorful optional sound buttons.
Example setup for inspiration. Frames, lamination, and sound buttons are optional; a simple paper board works too.
  1. Make it your own

    Print a manageable selection, such as help, again, stop, and no. Place the pictures where your child can comfortably see and reach them, and keep each symbol in a consistent spot.

  2. Read, point, and play

    Read together and point to a matching picture while saying the word naturally. During play, model again before repeating a favorite action or help when assistance is needed.

  3. Pause and respond

    Give your child time. Welcome looking, pointing, gestures, signs, speech, and their existing AAC. Honor stop and no. Keep it relaxed, without asking your child to copy you.

Use the board alongside the communication tools your child already uses. Choose a setup that fits your child, space, and budget.

Now available on Amazon

Meet a Tomorrow Maker

Follow Zane through a Career Day surprise, then keep imagining, drawing, and discovering with the official companion coloring and activity book.

Zane and the Career-Day Glitch: How a Tomorrow Maker Was Born book cover
Children’s story

Zane and the Career-Day Glitch

How a Tomorrow Maker Was Born

A joyful story about curiosity, creative problem-solving, and discovering that a child’s many interests can open the door to an exciting future.

Curiosity • Creativity • Possibility Buy the book on Amazon
Zane and the Career-Day Glitch companion coloring and activity book cover
Official companion

Companion Coloring & Activity Book

Color. Create. Discover.

Forty pages of coloring, drawing, puzzles, leadership challenges, and creative problem-solving for young Tomorrow Makers.

Explore • Imagine • Create Buy the companion on Amazon

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Partner With Us

For schools, libraries & community partners

A reading where every child can participate

Sensory-inclusive author readings welcome children to listen, move, respond, take a break, use gestures, or communicate with AAC. The experience can be adapted for classrooms, grade-level groups, special-education programs, family-literacy nights, and community events.

  • 01 Engaging storytime
  • 02 Visual and sensory supports
  • 03 Movement and call-and-response
  • 04 Gentle conversation about inclusion
  • 05 Author questions and answers

For Schools & Organizations

Bring Bagsy to your readers.

Explore Veluneli Read Along for shared reading on iPhone and iPad. Our purchasing guide helps schools, libraries, and organizations plan app licenses, assign them to shared devices, and support readers in their own way.

A clear purchasing path for your team

Learn how to count shared-device licenses and coordinate purchasing and installation with your IT or procurement team. Find budget examples, setup steps, and support information in one place.

Questions? 845-219-9980 · App Support & Privacy

For book purchasers & Bagsy pilot families

Request an icon symbol page

Choose the Veluneli Books title you purchased to request its accompanying icon symbols by email. Bagsy pilot families can also request the Bagsy pages: select Bagsy: Five Stories in One and Bagsy pilot program.

Your information will be used to respond to your request. You may also choose to receive occasional book updates and reader surveys.

This opens a request in your email app. Review and send it to info@velunelibooks.com so we can email the symbol pages to you. If an email app does not open, email us directly with your name, book title, and retailer or pilot participation.

For approved authors

Publishing & Printing for Authors

Veluneli Books™ offers selective publishing licenses and publishing collaborations for approved authors. Lulu Direct is the direct-sales production partner for print-on-demand production and fulfillment.

This is not a fee-for-publication service, and unsolicited manuscripts are not accepted. The agreement template is not an offer and creates no publishing relationship unless a final, title-specific agreement is completed and signed. Attorney review is required.

View the Author Publishing Agreement
Tatanisha Powell, author and founder of Veluneli Books

Meet the author

Tatanisha Powell

Author, grandmother, retired U.S. Army veteran, and advocate for children whose strengths are too often overlooked.

Tatanisha created Veluneli Books from a deeply personal belief: stories can help children understand one another with greater love, patience, and possibility. Inspired by her grandson Zion and grounded in real family experiences, her books portray autistic children as whole children—with humor, interests, strengths, needs, and agency.

A Beacon, New York native and Beacon High School graduate, Tatanisha brings warmth, lived experience, and a spirit of service to every story and reading.

Visit Tatanisha’s Amazon author page

Veluneli means

Knowledge guided by light, love, and purpose.

Books for families, educators, and communities building a world where children learn that different does not mean less.

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