It’s a family affair for Ryan Seacrest and Meredith Seacrest Leach’s new project! In an exclusive announcement to PEOPLE, the siblings shared that they co-authored their debut children’s book. The Make-Believers will be published this fall by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. “We are so excited to release our first children’s book this fall,” the siblings tell PEOPLE.
‘The Make-Believers’ by Ryan Seacrest and Meredith Seacrest Leach.
Simon & Schuster books for young readers
The Make-Believersfeaturing illustrations by Bonnie Lui, is a new look at the power of children’s imaginations and the importance of sharing your dreams with the people in your life, according to a statement shared with PEOPLE. The book is largely inspired by the Seacrest siblings’ own adventures as children.
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“The idea behind The Make-Believers it’s so important to us because it was inspired by our own childhoods growing up outside of Atlanta,” the siblings say. “We both wondered what life was like outside our everyday surroundings and discovered from an early age that our imaginations doubled as tools for big dreams and far-flung journeys.”
In their new book, the brothers and sisters will encourage children to dream big. “We used our imagination to imagine an unusual life, like those we have seen in movies and on television or in magazines and books,” they add.
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Meredith Seacrest Leach and Ryan Seacrest as children.
Connie Seacrest
The Make-Believers is not the first project the Seacrest siblings have worked on together. In 2009, the family founded the Ryan Seacrest Foundation, a nonprofit organization that installs broadcast media centers called Seacrest Studios in pediatric hospitals across the country.
Seacrest Leach is currently the foundation’s CEO and COO, and Seacrest is the president. In addition to continuing to work on television, Seacrest should also take on the role of a new host Wheel of Fortune after the retirement of Pat Sajak.
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With his important message, The Make-Believers is set to make a great gift for the youngest readers in your life, according to the publisher. “Through our foundation we have the opportunity to communicate with children all the time and understand the value of reading and the power of using our imagination,” the siblings continue. “We want to help children realize their dreams and believe in a world that is entirely theirs.”The Make-Believers will arrive in bookstores on October 8.
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