Christen Conrad
A children’s fun and creative story book writer & more!
Christen Conrad, The Story Book Writer, and more
Welcome to Christen’s Corner. A place where poetry, short stories, children’s stories, and book reviews come alive!
I love putting words together. Words paint a vision, inspire, give you knowledge, make you laugh, cry, scream, feel good inside, and thrills you to the bones. They are powerful. For me, writing down words to paint those pictures mesmerizes me. I am not an expert, nor did I study English in College. I’m just another human being who happened to pickup writing poetry when I was in Junior High, and went on to write short stories for fun.
Writing soothes my soul. I just love it. I am actually very shy verbally. Writing is my gateway for communication. It’s my way of contributing, but in a behind the scenes sort of way. In 2020, I self-published my first children’s book. I love writing children’s stories because I want to inspire kids to learn to read and love to read. I want to teach kids to learn to be kind to one another, believe in themselves that anything is possible, and admire themselves through their uniqueness and individuality. I also aim to help kids learn to treat differences in others with compassion, empathy, and equality as they mature into young adults. Basically, I love to see children happy and smiling. In my poetry I mostly try to bring forth a positive outlook. My goal is to inspire happiness, acceptance, and not giving up. These are important life attributes to me that I want to share with everyone who is interested.
In addition to reading and writing, I am 110% dedicated to helping animals. In my day job, I work in Veterinary Medicine. I have been in this field for over 10 years. It is also my passion. I created this website to promote my books and poetry, and, I have another website dedicated to cats and dogs. Everything cats and dogs, literally…
everythingcatsanddogs.com
You can access my pets website from thestorybookwriter.com website. I am no expert, but I do like to educate the public on health and behavior of our beloved pets. Routine health and preventative maintenance can go a long way in making your fur kids happy and healthy, and keeping your wallet stuffed.
My goal is to become affiliated with several pet companies and promote products and services I have tried out with informed reviews to share. However, I also want a to use my love of writing to help save homeless pets. This has always been a dream of mine.
I hope you find both my websites and facebook page enjoyable and informational. I would love it if you sent me a message. I am in the process of setting up an email address. I would also love it if you would share my websites and facebook-Christen’s Corner with others you know who may be interested. You may purchase my books from Ingramspark from my website!😊
With Warmth and Smiles,
The Story Book Writer
at Christen’s Corner
About me and my books…
I’m Christen Conrad, a new author and self-publisher in Kansas City, Missouri. Even though I’ve been writing poems, and short stories since I was in Junior High, I didn’t publish my first book until 2020. My first book is called Zester the Zebra and his Missing Stripes. It’s clever, charming, and fun to read. This story concludes book one from my Forever Zoo Friends Series. My second story, The Lion and the Cricket Play Hide and Seek, was just recently published. Both reading and writing gives me peace and joy, especially when I can utilize my creative juices to help educate children, and create stories that teach them to admire themselves through their uniqueness and individualities. Check out my books, your kids will love them!
Zester the Zebra and his Missing Stripes
This story is a cute, and funny story, I chose to put in rhyme. It teaches lessons of friendship, helping others out, and not giving up. Children will enjoy the rhyme, to help them learn to read.
Every child needs good books, to open up their creative minds, and educate indeed.
Paperback available for less than $7.00 on Amazon!
A zebra named Zester loses his stripes, whatever will he do?
Without his stripes, he feels, out of place and blue.
Those black, silly, stripes, where did they go?
As he searches all day long, and everywhere high and low.
Then Happy, the hippo, see's her friend, Zester, start to cry
and wants to help him out, as she is strolling by.
Will Zester's stripes be found or not?
Check this book out as the kids will love it a lot!
The Lion and the Cricket Play Hide and Seek
This story is a cute, and funny story, I chose to put in rhyme. It teaches lessons of friendship, helping others out, and not giving up. Children will enjoy the rhyme, to help them learn to read.
Every child needs good books, to open up their creative minds, and educate indeed.
Lyle the lonely lion has no friends because he is shy. His days are filled with boredom as he roams around all by himself. One day, however, he becomes lucky, and meets an outgoing cricket named Zen. At first, Lyle wasn't too sure about Zen, but Zen, opened his eyes (and shut his eyes) to a fun new game Lyle learned to play called Hide And Seek. Not only did Lyle make a new friend, and learn a new game he also got to help save the day for some helpless baby birds. Check out all the fun Lyle and Zen had today!
The Rainbow Pickle Patch
Paperback $9.99
The Rainbow Pickle Patch is a short children's fiction story about pickles, with colorful and bright pictures. A pink pickle sprouts but feels all alone and sad because all the other pickles are green, and the green pickles ignore the pink pickle because they do not understand why it is pink, and not green like them. With the help of a wise rainbow, who explains the special uniqueness of the pink pickle, as well as the special uniqueness of the green pickles, all the pickles began to unite together in harmony. The rainbow then helps to make a pickle patch full of different colors, and teaches the pickles how everone's differences are special. Read how the rainbow creates the rainbow pickle patch in this cute story that shows positivity towards differences.
Book Reviews and Recommendations
For Children’s Stories
This page is designed to display books I have read. I love to read as much as I love to write, and being an Indie Author, I know how hard it is to show your fabulous book to the world. If anyone is interested in having me read their children’s book and review/recommend it on my website and facebook page, just let me know! I will also be reading & reviewing/recommending children’s books I find at the library for educational purposes. Just catch me on my facebook page!
CHILDREN’S BOOK REVIEW
The Sisters Z
By Kerry Marc Olitzky, Deborah Bodin Cohen, and Lena Tohoff
This is a short, captivating story during biblical times that depicts a sisterhood who unite together and utilize their feminine strength & power to show they deserve to be treated fair and not judged by their gender. I like how it is such an easy read with such a powerful message. I recommend this to young kids, both boys and girls, as it teaches each of us how to treat others with equality. As I read it, the colors of the illustrations of the sisters in the desert brought a warmth to my heart. The illustrations were sensible and filled the pages, colorfully detailing this cute and educational story. I’ve added the links below to buy this book or check out the authors library and studio, and Etsy Shop!
Life is Good
My neighborhood may be considered substandard but my immediate neighbors are more than helpful
My house may be small and not brand newbut that just means i have less to cleaning to do
My home is not a big and fancy homebut it’s our little dwelling and humble abode
The old stuff in my house may break more frequent but it just teaches me to be more self-sufficient
My furniture may not match in any way but its cozy and makes me feel comfortably safe
My kitchen may have dark yellow walls but it is my kitchen and it’s open to all
There might be too many pets running around but they are my children and my home they found
The clothes on my back may be simple and old but they keep me from being naked and cold
My body may be enormously out of shape but it’s my body that belongs to the mind I create
I may not have 100 plus friends but the few I have are with me to the end
My husband may suffer from that damn epilepsy if you lived in his shoes you would know his strength
I may not be all that brainy and smart but I feel what counts is what comes from your heart
I may feel down and always depressed but what doesn’t kill me makes me the strongest
I may like to talk, I may talk too much but my talk is about those I admire a bunch
Sometimes i have literally nothing to say but my ears do nothing but listen away
Life Isn’t always initially what you want but you realize what you have can be more than enough
- Christen Conrad