About the Author

About the Author

Paul S. Estabrook is a children’s author, Navy veteran, and the creator of The Thought Explorers. He lives in New Hampshire, where he writes heartfelt stories that help children and families see fear, feelings, and life in a new way.

Paul began writing children’s books because of something deeply personal.

For most of his life, he did not realize how much of his suffering came from a misunderstanding about where his experience was really coming from. The Three Principles, as shared by Sydney Banks, helped him see something profound about how people experience life from the inside out. As a Christian, that understanding also brought Scripture to life in a way he had never seen before. It did not take away from what he had been taught. It added to it. It deepened it. And for him, that was beautiful and life changing.

As a child, Paul was scared a lot. He worried about failing, doing something wrong, and not being good enough. What made this especially interesting to him later in life was that he grew up in a loving home. His mom loved him deeply, and he always knew it. Yet fear still seemed to follow him wherever he went.

At the time, Paul believed those feelings were being caused by circumstances, other people, or life itself. Looking back, he could see they were coming from the stories he was innocently telling himself. The misunderstanding was that he believed those stories were being told to him.

That innocent misunderstanding led to years of anxiety, depression, panic attacks, and fearful living.

Paul does not want that for any child. Especially not for his children or grandchildren.

But some things cannot be handed to someone like an answer. They have to be seen for themselves.

That is what Paul hopes his stories do. They gently point children toward a truth they can discover in their own way.

The idea was simple. He would write stories for his children to read to their children. He would use his own grandchildren as the characters and create adventures they could relate to. Through storytelling, he could gently point toward a different way of seeing fear, worry, feelings, and life itself.

One book became a series. Then another book. Then a few more.

And that is the heart behind Paul’s writing.

He does not write because he has all the answers. He writes because seeing life differently changed his, and if these stories help even one child see a little more clearly, then every page was worth writing.