Channing Tatum on Daughter Everly Turning 10 and How She Inspired New 'Sparkella' Book (Exclusive)

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Channing Tatum is turning to his miniature muse for inspiration. The actor and children's book author is opening up about how his daughter helped him with his latest installment in his book series.Recently, Tatum spoke with ET's Rachel Smith and reflected on his new book,, which is the third book in his best-selling series, and explained how this book is really «different than the first two.»«The first two kind of connected on some level,» he explained. «The first one was about sort of the anxiety of expectations of a new place and then this second one was really about when your expectations are completely failing… and what do you do to try to make the best of it?

This one's kind of just a complete departure.»Tatum explained how he spoke with some teachers and experts and one thing that seemed to come up a lot was about the anxiety that comes when young kids first start understanding the concept of lying and storytelling.«They're kind of figuring out what that means and it makes them feel and is it OK?

What’s the difference between make-believe and then a lie?» he added.For Tatum, a memory of his daughter, Everly, telling her first «big, yucky-feeling lie» helped inform the story quite a bit.«She stole a little toy car from school, and she was just sick about it,» Tatum recalled, explaining how Everly is «a hustler» who always convinces him to come back into her room at night to read more stories, because she doesn't want to go to sleep."[One night], she kept calling me back in.

I could tell something was a little different with this, but I thought she was just hustling me. And then, all of a sudden, just like full tears," he shared. «She was like, 'I need to tell you something, but I'm afraid and I'm gonna get kicked.