'Areli Is a Dreamer' and other books help kids understand immigration, identity, belonging Pamela Avila, USA TODAY Channing Tatum on writing a children's book, the celeb dads he admires including Ryan Reynolds, Jason Momoa and Chris Hemsworth Replay Video UP NEXT Growing up undocumented in the United States, Areli Morales didn't come across many children's books that addressed or helped make sense of her experience. So she wrote her own. "Areli Is a Dreamer: A True Story," illustrated by Luisa Uribe (Random House Studio, out June 8), depicts the author's early childhood in Puebla, Mexico, where she was born, and in New York City, where she grew up.