Ben Conry - Bigger Words Make Better Readers

Story Collections

You can purchase a collection of my stories, including a set of crayons to illustrate the stories yourself!

All collections are $9.00, with $1.00 for Shipping

Colonel Pinchwaffle Collection

Zany coloring books designed to increase children's vocabulary

  • Musillogical Guide to Imaginazing and Fantastical Artistic Moments
  • Zooillogical Guide to Imaginazing and Fantastical Creatures
  • Tech-no-logical Guide to Imaginazing and Fantastical Things

Reader Comments:

A great vocabulary skill builder, I use them as extra credit work for my 3rd graders. They love it. Jan from Charlotte, NC

I’ve never seen my eight-year-old use crayons and a dictionary at the same time, it was amazing. Thanks, Greg

Bigger Words Make Better Readers

Stories designed to expand children's vocabulary

  • Who killed Joe Blender?
  • Baby Jamie's Wild Ride
  • Alice's General Outfitters, Post Office, Provisions, and Apothecary

Reader Comments:

My nephew loves your stories and likes uses his new words on his friends. Carrie from Pikesville, MD

Bigger Words Make Better Readers, Volume 2

Stories designed to expand children's vocabulary

Reader Comments:

My nephew loves your stories and likes uses his new words on his friends. Carrie from Pikesville, MD

Bedtime Stories for the Inner Child

Stories written for kids and kids at heart.

  • Shultz, Santa's Spare Reindeer
  • Cookie
  • How to Make Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
  • International Bunnyhood of Egg Haulers

Reader Comments:

Two years ago, we adopted from little girl from Tianjin, China. She is six and still too young to understand the subtly in your story [Cookie]. She understood enough to ask me about the dragon… I explained [how she and the dragon are similar]. Even if she didn’t understand, I did. 你 (thank you) Gloria (and Sami) Vancouver, BC

My granddaughter called me on the telephone and read to me a list of ingredients. She wouldn’t tell me why, but she wanted to know that I had every one before she visited on Thanksgiving. The day after Thanksgiving, when the family was shopping, we made oatmeal raisin cookies while reading your story. Thank you for that magical afternoon. “Gam-ma” Fitz – York, PA

The Dark Places Collection

Creepy and sad stories ala Grimm’s Faire Tales

  • Santa Detail
  • Limb Soup Factory
  • The Newsman Told Me So
  • Pairs of Shoes
  • Hooked

Reader Comments:

omg, creeeepy? i lvd it! Josh (age 10) [regarding Limb Soup Factory]

I’m never going fishing again. Anna (age 9) [regarding Hooked]

Are you firefighter? My dad think’s so. My dad is and he read Santa Detail to me and I cried and so did he a little. I though it was about a Christmas. It isn’t, is it? My dad says its about lying, isn’t it? Mariah (age 8) as dictated to her dad.

Smart Stories for Smart Children

Stories for good readers who want more out of a children's book.

  • The Grizzly Chronicles
  • The Bright Red Motorcycle

Reader Comments:

Finally, new stories that challenge my students GT 5th graders that I can use in school because they are not all about drugs, sex and vampires. They are not more boy-in-the-woods adventure stories. They are modern, fresh, and make my students want to keep reading. The boys especially like them because they are exciting and funny. Well done… Write more, please. Cheryl [Pittsburg Public Schools]

Phillip [from The Bright Red Motor Cycle] was me as a kid! Thanks for the memories and for showing that ADHD is not a terrible life at all. It just makes school very difficult. Mike –Baltimore, MD

Smart Stories for Smart Children, Volume 2

Stories for good readers who want more out of a children's book.

Reader Comments:

Finally, new stories that challenge my students GT 5th graders that I can use in school because they are not all about drugs, sex and vampires. They are not more boy-in-the-woods adventure stories. They are modern, fresh, and make my students want to keep reading. The boys especially like them because they are exciting and funny. Well done… Write more, please. Cheryl [Pittsburg Public Schools]

Phillip [from The Bright Red Motor Cycle] was me as a kid! Thanks for the memories and for showing that ADHD is not a terrible life at all. It just makes school very difficult. Mike –Baltimore, MD

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