Keri Vellis Author and her husband have fostered 19 children. After struggling to find relatable books for her foster kids, she decided to write her own.
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00:00I want these kids who are in foster care to not feel any different than any child.
00:06And children who've been abused, I don't want them to feel shame.
00:16Imagine your child being removed from your arms, being placed in a new home,
00:21how scary that is and what these children go through.
00:24To have a child sit and read a book and feel good about their situation
00:29what kind of gift are you giving them?
00:43My husband and I had three children, three birth children together
00:47and through foster care we have adopted three children.
00:51Our first two children were severely abused.
00:55I wanted to find a book that I could help these children relate with a bedtime story
01:00and there was nothing at the bookstore.
01:02And I came home and I told my husband, there are no books, I want to write a book.
01:06And I wrote my first book which is called Sometimes.
01:10Sometimes is a story about a child who's removed from their home and lives in a new home.
01:15How they might feel, what they might be going through.
01:25These kids come from situations, all different situations.
01:28They could be living in a trailer, they could be homeless, they could be living under a bridge.
01:33There's kids all over the U.S. who have suffered some type of abuse
01:37and I want them to have my book when I was little.
01:40It's a story about a child who's been abused, who suffers from nightmares,
01:44who has a hard time and how they disclose to a therapist about their abuse
01:50and how things are getting easier for them.
01:52You don't realize that your kid's classmate might be in foster care
01:56and it doesn't mean their parents don't love them, it doesn't mean that they're bad kids.
02:00These books help these children realize situations happen and it's not their fault.