Cookie Crooked Tail is announcing her new book for 2026

 Hello! I'm Cookie Crooked Tail, the kitten!

(I am also called "Gremlin" by Daddy/Mommy because he says I am a LOT of trouble every hour each day)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GBXLHWWX

Attention, please, teachers, young readers-learners, and parents-grandparents and aunts/uncles and cousins who read to children: Cookie Crooked Tail, also known as "Gremlin!", will be with you shortly. (Her real given name is Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, but this is a bit long for a child. Well, maybe not. And I once had a cat named "Buster," which was short for Butterscotch Custard.

This is an e-book because it's short in size (like Cookie), but also because she's only six months old and hasn't done enough (yet) to create more mischief in her/my life. (She's working on it hourly, if not daily.) It's a VERY short little e-book in content (she's already in a handful of trouble).

    

Five (5) Tales and Stories for Children and Young Adult Reading Fun

 5 books in one for reading aloud to children

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F2ZYBS1J

Children's book: "The Girl Who Made Friends with Dragons"

Paperback   or   Kindle

Suzy is a little girl who lives with her parents beside a big mountain. She never talks to anyone because she hears their thoughts in her head--and they can't hear her answer them. Inside the mountain live a group of amazing dragons: they are hiding from humans for hundreds of years. They create huge tunnels by eating rocks to visit their families in other countries. 

When a young boy dragon forgot to cover up the exit to the dragon’s home cave, Suzy and Goldie, a little girl dragon, meet one day by accident. They become friends and stay out late when they learn dragons hear human thoughts! But there's trouble when Suzy's father and Goldie's dragon father come looking for their missing children!

 A little human girl and a little dragon girl become heroes who help everyone make up a peaceful way to live and work together. Come join the adventure of their story--and learn about delicious-flavored gemstones (dragons think they are like candy!), a dragon-hosted heated swimming pool, and a dragon/human neighborhood cook-out barbeque!

Children's book: "I am the Flumps"

Paperback   Kindle

 Hello! Let me tell you my name. I am The Flumps. I live with a person who feeds me.    He loves me a lot too. I agree: I am worth it.

My real name is “Oreo” like the cookie. I am three years old. I was a Christmas present for a young girl who lived with her grandmother and her service dog. But the person who feeds me and keeps me warm calls me “Flumps.”

That is what he says I do: I fall down and go “flump” on the bed or the rug when I am tired. It feels good, and then I sleep. 

(You need to read more about me in the book...)

Children's Book - "How the Platypus got its strange...parts"

 Paperback or Kindle on Amazon.com

Poor Platypus from Australia is afraid of Mr. Dingo-dog and his kind because they hunt all kinds of animals. And Platypus has no kind of defense! So he asks his friends for advice and help.

But Mr. Ostrich has long legs and can run fast, and Mrs. Kangaroo can jump far away very quickly, and wise Brother Koala hides in a tree which no one else likes to eat—and poor Platypus has nothing!

So Platypus asks Mother Nature for help—but there’s a problem! See, Platypus keeps asking for more and more and more! And he won’t stop—until Mother Nature is mad because he wants too much! And that’s why poor Platypus now is “the creature that is half-animal and half-bird,” and everyone thinks he is the strangest-looking thing in Australia!

Here is the first, “original story” from the aboriginal people of Australia about the origins of this strange animal, and also a new, “original story” by me and my fascination for the platypus.

Children's book - "Blueberry Plant and Rose Bush: Two Flower-Friends in China"

 Paperback      Kindle

    In March 2015, I accepted a position as an English instructor at Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics in Nanchang, China. In Fall 2016, I received a gift from a local family with whom I am still in contact on a weekly basis. I am back in the U.S., but we still keep in touch by WeChat.  They gave me a blueberry plant for Christmas as a thank-you for being so kind to their three children. I kept that plant for the winter. Afterward, I had it alongside a single rose bush in the courtyard area where the foreign teachers’ apartments were located on the campus.

I took it upon myself to water all the plants alongside the blueberry because I couldn’t bear to see them wilt and die. Before I left to go home in June 2017, I made a place for both the blueberry plant and the rose bush next to each other. I felt that they had grown together as friends and deserved the companionship in my memory and their effort. It taught me something about reaching out for a friend’s help when needed.