Joan Cox

Toby's Tall Pumpkin Joan Cox

Joan Brown Cox has been creating children stories for many years. She is a mother, grandmother and a great-grandmother and has fostered her craft by sharing poems, songs, and storytelling with her own family and others. Long before she was writing her own stories she was listening to tales at the knees of her own grandmother, mother, aunts, uncles, and cousins as they laughed and swapped exaggerated versions of the truth. For her, story making and storytelling is a way to convey life lessons and to cherish every single day. Alongside her writing, Joan has owned children's clothing stores, traveled broadly, and volunteered with a range of community service organizations including children's day care services for single mothers. She frequently recites stories in elementary schools nationwide and is always writing new children's pieces which are fun, exciting, and above all, worth telling.