Okay. So we’re discussing The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear, the longest title we ever put on one of our books.
That’s true.
And we’re wondering about the voice. Is the bear real? Who’s reading this book and that was an interesting breakthrough that you create
Well, I think we did that one together as I recall.
That could have been. I had a hand in that.
That was a long time ago. You did. And the way I look at it is that the bear is just what the reader believes it is. The reader can choose what the bear is. Is there a bear? Isn’t there a bear? Who is the bear? Who’s doing this, you know? And that’s what I believe.
Audrey’s always on the child’s side and this was a child scared. Somebody had spooked this kid maybe because of a real bear, maybe because of just, you know, the things that hide under your bed but she wrote a story about overcoming fear and then overcoming it by sharing with whatever this entity was out there whether it be a con job or a real bear.
Just maybe it’s inside of the child or the person, you know, right? Your subconscious, I mean, from a higher level.
Yeah, very good. Very good. Nonetheless, it’s a marvelous theme that has been repeated many, many times in children’s literature and she hit a good one.