Scaredy Cat
- The story about a cat who is always teased, because all of his life he has been scared to do anything all of his friends and cats at cat-school do.
- A Wise Old Owl comes to Scaredy Cat's aid one day and helps Scaredy Cat make a mend. Wise Owl teaches Scaredy Cat that all the activities he gets teased for not doing, are simply not so scary after all
- Story starts out with Scaredy Cat being very scared, the overall aesthetics of the art style symbolise the emotion Scaredy Cat feels.. Little colour and 'life' is within the pages from the beginning, use of dark colours, hardly any plants/objects, grey clouds.. All symbolise Scaredy Cats emotion. Upon progression, Children will be encouraged to relate to the character and go through the story helping Scaredy Cat become happy and calm from the silly little things he has been scared of (Symbolising the likeliness of the childs life)
- As with the aesthetics of the overall story.. Scaredy Cat also plays apart in the symbolical nature of his fear and emotion. At the beginning, Scaredy cat follows suit to the objects in the world, his art style; line art. Throughout the story, as colour is pumped into the world (and his lifestyle) his body begins to change colour and he develops a unique pattern (as all cats have) this will symbolise his uniqueness.
- Art style will progressively change from inspiration of Line Art, through to traditional Asian Art.
- The 'Scared Meter' will double up with two uses. One being a simple bookmark for the page the child is on, the 2nd would be the ability to compare the mood/feeling of Scaredy Cats progression to overcoming his fears (where the child is up to within the story) - Litmus paper technique, gradient colour, blue to pinky-red.
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