Aaron Cole
Aaron Cole is just a dad - a dad who loves a good story that is.
I started telling made-up bedtime stories to my kids and now here we are. I’ve always been a bookworm. I grew up on The Chronicles of Narnia, Redwall, and Harry Potter. My love for reading really took off in 3rd grade; my teacher would give me book recommendations .... more
Aaron Cole is just a dad - a dad who loves a good story that is.
I started telling made-up bedtime stories to my kids and now here we are. I’ve always been a bookworm. I grew up on The Chronicles of Narnia, Redwall, and Harry Potter. My love for reading really took off in 3rd grade; my teacher would give me book recommendations and we’d talk about all things Harry Potter. That backfired on me, though, when I got sent to the principal’s office and was reading a book while I waited. That teacher walked by and told them to take my book away and have me work on math because reading was no punishment for me!
My life changed forever in 2015 my first kid was born, and I started telling her stories before she knew what stories were. Some came from well-known books and others I made up. Haven has become a pretty creative little story-teller herself, and I like to think I had some part in that. One evening, I started telling Haven a story about a little blue flame because I couldn’t get this image of a shy, fearful little bit of fire out of my head. The story iterated and changed and grew over time (in part because of Haven’s many edits) until one day, Haven wondered why Little Blue Flame wasn’t in a book like some of her other favorite stories. When your daughter asks for a book, you give it to her, am I right? And so my first book, Little Blue Flame's Big Adventure, was born.