Carol Story
Author
Carol Story is a children’s book author and longtime conservationist. After retiring from corporate America, Carol began volunteering for various environmental causes. These volunteer ventures, sparked by the suggestion of a friend, inspired her to write children’s books. Her stories are told in rhyming prose, with a section at the end of the story for readers who want to know a little bit more.
Carol first volunteered for the Audubon Alliance for Coastal Waterbirds. This experience inspired her first book, Ellie’s Day at the Shore. She is currently a volunteer docent at Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport, Connecticut, which inspired her second book, Ellie’s Day at the Zoo. Both books earned 5-star reviews from Readers Favorite.
Carol also writes for and edits The Howler, a newsletter for volunteers and staff of Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo. Carol loves being out in Nature and often hikes with friends and family. She lives in Connecticut.
In her retirement, Carol began volunteering for various environmental causes, long a passion of hers. One of her favorite volunteer jobs was walking the beach in Stratford, Connecticut for the Audubon Alliance for Coastal Waterbirds, where she helped monitor the piping plovers, least terns, common terns and American oystercatchers nesting there. She volunteered there during the 2017, 2018 and 2019 nesting seasons. She would share her observations with her mother, who had long been interested in birds. After her mother’s death and at the suggestion of a friend, she wrote “Ellie’s Day at the Shore” as a way to tie together her mother’s memory with her volunteer work. “Ellie’s Day at the Shore” earned a 5-star review from Readers Favorite. It was also featured in a blog for Audubon Connecticut, where Carol talked about her volunteer work, in Birds of New England, a birding column by Chris Bosak, and in an article in Hearst Media Connecticut.
In 2019, Carol began volunteering for Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport, where she chats with guests and gives them information and insights about the many animal residents there, as well as a little about the history of the Zoo. She enjoyed writing “Ellie’s Day at the Shore” so much that she decided to write a book about Ellie and Carol going to the Zoo. She collaborated on the project with Jack Bradley, another Zoo volunteer who is also a photographer. The result of that collaboration is “Ellie’s Day at the Zoo”, a picture book with a story. Carol is a volunteer Docent on the Zoo’s Volunteer Council and is editor of and writes for The Howler, a newsletter for volunteers and staff of Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport. Carol lives in Connecticut.
In 2019, Carol began volunteering for Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport, where she chats with guests and gives them information and insights about the many animal residents there, as well as a little about the history of the Zoo. She enjoyed writing “Ellie’s Day at the Shore” so much that she decided to write a book about Ellie and Carol going to the Zoo. She collaborated on the project with Jack Bradley, another Zoo volunteer who is also a photographer. The result of that collaboration is “Ellie’s Day at the Zoo”, a picture book with a story. Carol is a volunteer Docent on the Zoo’s Volunteer Council and is editor of and writes for The Howler, a newsletter for volunteers and staff of Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport. Carol lives in Connecticut.
