This children book story deals with a cat owner who discoveries that her new pet only truly cares about itself while she faces her childhood fear.
Summary:
This story deals with a little girl named Rose whose parents decided to get Rose a pet. At that moment, Rose spots a big fat white cat which she names the cat Stella. Stella and Rose became best friends over a couple of weeks. However, that changed when Rose noticed something strange was occurring in the house. Rose discovered that she has a new animal that moved into her house. That animal turned out to be Rose’s biggest fear which was a rat. Rose ever since she was a kid, she was dependent on others to help her through her issues. Rose started to realize that her new pet Stella was nothing more than a lazy cat that didn’t any interest in helping her get over her fears. At that moment, Rose has to face fears without Stella. Stella suffered major consequence because she failed to catch the rat.
Art aspect:
This book was influenced by my childhood experiences and children book that my mother would read to me. I added a couple of audios which include cat snoring and rat shrieking into my story because I feel like it would add suspense to the story. In one of the pages, I didn’t wanted to state what animal Rose discovered because it would cause the reader to lost interest. However, the rat shrieking would persuade the reader to continue to read the story.
Another aspect deals with that I drew all the characters and background to add a little of personal touch to the story. I thought to myself why not let my cousin draw something on the characters which included the dress and the name tag on the cat.
In two pages I included a stop animation videos because I felt that it was necessary to demonstrate the actions of the animal. On the last page, I draw Stella being followed by a cloud as it rains on her. This was purpose of this was to allow the readers to feel sad about the cat being throw out of her house and loses a friendship. I allowed the scenes to develop because I want the readers to love the relationships between Rose and Stella.
Moral Lesson:
The moral of this story is that someone shouldn’t be dependent on others to help them overcome their fears. You have to be the one to overcome your fears because it would be rewarding at the end.