Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears
it started off just as a list of fears and phobias. Not so much now, I’m getting better about it. I’m a quite nervous person and I tend to have quite a lot of fears and phobias and I started to think about. My daughter was also quite fearful.
As a little child, she was quite fearful and I was thinking about her fears and so I thought it would be quite fun to have a book that was just like a list. And I had it in a sketch book for a couple of years really just thinking, “Well, that’d be quite a nice thing to do.”
And it wasn’t until I came up with the idea of a mouse that it seemed to come together. And then I realized that if it was a little mouse, then that would be perfect because they’re so small and shivery and sort of scared of things that he could have these big fears, but he could work his way through the book so he could actually burrow himself into it.
And I really wanted to make it look like he had actually been in the book eating parts of the book and had really made an impact on the book. So, yeah, it’s lots of sort of scanning in things into my computer and then altering them to make them sort of tie in with the book and be sort of mouse-friendly.