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
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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
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

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.

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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
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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

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.

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

Bring a sensory reading to your community