Carla Atkinson’s Compassionate Children’s Book On Improving Foster Care Life Set to Display at the L.A. Times Festival of Books 2024
There will be a lot of new children’s literature exhibited at the L.A. Times Festival of Books this year. There will also be at least a handful of them discussing sensitive and challenging topics. However, for authors like Carla Atkinson, such books are necessary, especially when they are meant for an audience that is experiencing such difficulties firsthand. Her book, “Sarah’s Touch,” tells a true-to-life story about foster care and the best way to reach the children in it.
“You always know when Sara has been in a room. She always leaves her touch.”
The exhibits at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2024 are expected to feature not just new entertaining reads. There will also be plenty of titles that discuss challenging topics and guides for audiences experiencing difficult situations. This even includes a number of children’s books, such as the one by Carla Atkinson.
Atkinson is the author of “Sarah’s Touch” and also a long-time advocate of better foster care for many years. Her experience with the system began as early as when she was 11 years old, having to teach Sunday school and babysit other kids of all ages.
In 1968, she and her husband began taking in their own foster children. In 1984, they founded a group home agency, which then grew to six group homes, a foster agency, and a special education school.
To date, they have lovingly raised 200 kids while still being active in the lives of about 125 grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
This gave them plenty of experiences with the youths constantly being forced through the system, including the story that inspired “Sarah’s Touch.” The children’s book is described as a “touching story that teaches the value of quality by example.” Its titular character is a girl who has reached out to others not only with her words or with some manner of lesson but in how she lived things out herself.
“Sarah’s Touch” is a book that encourages kids to do their best, not because school or classes require it, but because of finding value in their own lives.
Readers who would like to learn more from what’s taught in “Sarah’s Touch” by Carla Atkinson can find a copy on display at the self-publishing and book marketing company ReadersMagnet’s exhibit at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2024 at booth #225. The date for the event is April 20-21, 2024, at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Get a copy, either print or ebook, on ReadersMagnet Bookstore, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble.
“Sarah’s Touch”
Author: Carla Atkinson
Published date: February 16, 2024
Publisher: ReadersMagnet LLC
Genre: Children’s Book
Author Bio
Carla Atkinson has been interested in the health and welfare of children since childhood. As an eleven-year-old, Carla began teaching Sunday school, and she baby-sat children of all ages for many years.
Carla and her husband, Jim began taking foster children in 1968, and to date have raised over two hundred children. They are active in the lives of their 125 grandchildren and great grandchildren. Carla and Jim founded a group home agency in 1984, ultimately opening six group homes, a foster agency, and a Special Education School.
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