Tami Charles, TOGETHER, UNITED (An All Because You Matter Book)
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
At Totally Booked: Live! at the Whitby Hotel, Zibby interviews New York Times bestselling author Tami Charles about TOGETHER, UNITED, a lushly illustrated, powerful, and lyrical children’s book about unity and love. Tami reveals the inspiration behind the series, her passion for helping children understand their worth and history, and the role books play in fostering empathy. She also opens up about navigating book challenges, her unexpected past as a singer, her transition to teaching, and how young readers (and her own son!) continue to shape her work.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Totally Booked Live at the Whitby, where I get to interview amazing authors in person in front of a fabulous studio audience. |
| 0:10.2 | Today I am thrilled to be talking to Tammy Charles, who will discuss Together United, the third in a trilogy. |
| 0:17.1 | Welcome. |
| 0:17.9 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:19.4 | Last time we talked, you were on my podcast, but we had never met in person. |
| 0:23.7 | So this is such a lovely treat. |
| 0:26.2 | It was really good to meet you in person because we were virtual and it was the pandemic. |
| 0:31.4 | It was a good time. |
| 0:32.6 | I didn't think I'd be that much taller than you, though, for some reason. |
| 0:36.7 | I know. |
| 0:37.1 | How should I feel that everyone's always like, oh, you're so short. |
| 0:41.3 | Good. |
| 0:41.9 | You're a giant metaphorically speaking. |
| 0:43.3 | Thank you. |
| 0:43.7 | Thank you for that. |
| 0:44.4 | I needed that. |
| 0:45.1 | I needed that. |
| 0:46.3 | Okay. |
| 0:46.8 | Together United. |
| 0:47.8 | Talk about this book for kids and how this was the final piece in the puzzle of the trilogy. |
| 0:54.9 | Okay. |
| 0:55.5 | So I can't talk about Together United without bringing up the first two books. |
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