All the pictures in the books are created using the toys and other models and the drawings are usually the actual size of the toys. When she is satisfied with the story she begins the drawings which she creates using colour pencils. She then reads it through to herself to check that the story flows and makes sense - she used to read the stories to Owen but he thinks he is a bit too big for that now!
She plans out the story creating a "dummy" book with parts of the story and sketches of the pictures pasted in. When Jane starts work on a new book, the stories come first, then the pictures. Rabbit was bought in an Oxfam shop in Brighton for the princely sum of five pence - and Jane wondered at the time if he was worth it! Little Bear also belonged to Owen - being little he is very mischievous and loves falling off things! Hoot the Owl was made by Jane when she decided she wanted to do an Owl story and didn't have one.Īll the toys in the gang were carefully selected and chosen for different reasons, maybe for their colour, their looks, thetexture of their fur or just that their character seemed to fit so beautifully with the others. Bramwell Brown was made for her son Owen who is now 22. The other toy characters she has collected over the years.
Both Jane and Old Bear are around fifty years old - he was given to her when she was a baby. Jane Hissey has become known to children throughout the world as creator of the stories about Old Bear and his friends.
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