AN INTERRUPTION BY HICCUP

I think it is clear by now that Hiccup is nothing, if not intrusive.
Is this due to him being so small and therefore constantly interrupting me?
He seems to have picked up on the fact that there are so many books being aimed at children on the subject of social issues.
‘Why don’t you do that with your stories, Papa?’ he asked me yesterday. It has taken me all this time to wonder where that little ‘bolt from the blue’ came from, and how I would even begin answering it.

Well I am no spring chicken any longer and my writing is influenced by authors and illustrators from a different period of modern history. In writing about Hiccup and his 26 Teddy-bear friends, I saw no reason to think about social issues. I was fortunate enough to spend my childhood fed on a diet of stories for the sake of ‘simply being stories’. One can read anything into any piece of writing finding meaning that was never intended. In writing my short tales I only wished to give young children some adventures of teddy-bears (and let’s be honest, all children love teddy-bears) which have a beginning and end and, in between, events happen which are funny, weird, slightly unbelievable, possibly thought-provoking but which can be shared with parents, carers or siblings where possible. I also like the thought that children can meet new words and objects too as part of the learning process, using words and pictures to help form their vocabulary.

‘Now Hiccup, does that help?’
Hiccup did think this time before answering.
‘Yes’, he replied. ‘I’m a very small teddy-bear but I understand that, so please Papa, can we get the next book printed so everyone can read about the time I meet Ivan with his Ice-Cream Van?

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