Chris Pine is now a children’s book author

Actor Chris Pine is telling a different type of story these days.

Actor Chris Pine is telling a different type of story these days. The “Star Trek” star has a new children’s book out, titled “When Digz the Dog Met Zurl the Squirrel: A Short Tale About a Short Tail.” “A lot of the impetus for writing, the joy of writing, was thinking about parents reading it, because I remember when I was a kid and fell in love with a book, I’d have my father read it over and over again,” Pine told People magazine. “Even though I’m not a parent, I can’t tell you how many parents I’ve talked to, and for whatever reason, they are just sick and tired of reading book X for the umpteenth time, so I thought, ‘Well, it would be great to write something that hopefully feels so delicious in the mouth and is so fun to say … that they would want to come back and explore over and over again,’” Pine said. “The story of it is really quite simple, but I think it doesn’t mean that it’s any less important to state the importance of compassion and seeing past judging a book by its cover, so to speak.” It focuses on a dog names Digz, who believes he is the ruler of a garden and a squirrel, Zurl who disagrees. The pair soon learn that they have some things in common.