Skip to content
Sharon Hopwood
  • About
  • Everyone Belongs
  • Little Mouse
  • School Visits
    • Reviews
  • Activities
  • Events
    • News
  • Gallery
  • Contact
Sharon Hopwood
  • About
  • Everyone Belongs
  • Little Mouse
  • School Visits
    • Reviews
  • Activities
  • Events
    • News
  • Gallery
  • Contact

Gallery

STEP INTO MY WORLD…

Can you read the body language clues? 👀🐭 One of t Can you read the body language clues? 👀🐭

One of the things I love most when sharing Little Mouse with children is when we all become Body Language Detectives! It’s such a playful way to begin conversations about feelings, without making them feel big or difficult.

So, next time you read Little Mouse is Absolutely, Completely, Totally FINE!, take a closer look… what clues can you spot in his face, hands and body? 🐭

📖 Little Mouse is Absolutely, Completely, Totally FINE!
Written by me
Illustrated by @marisamorea 
Published by @farshorebooks 

#littlemouseisfine #picturebook #emotionalliteracy #empathy #earlyyearseducation
Eight libraries. Eight adventures. Eight brilliant Eight libraries. Eight adventures. Eight brilliant books chosen. And one thing Little Mouse and I came away knowing for sure:

Libraries are magical places. 📚🥰❤️

Librarians know their readers. They remember what a child loved last time and somehow pull exactly the right book from a shelf. They create places where children can explore, ask questions, laugh, join in… or simply sit quietly with a story.

Little Mouse found books about friendship, courage, identity and big feelings. He made music, played chess, discovered Roman ovens and made so many new friends. 🐭💕

So this is a huge thank you to every librarian who keeps putting stories into children’s hands.

What you do matters enormously. ❤️

And now Little Mouse wants to know…

What’s your favourite library and which picture book would you take home?

Drop them in the comments. We’d love to know. 👇📚

#library #goallin #worcester #authorlife #childrensbookstagram
Final stop on Little Mouse’s birthday library adve Final stop on Little Mouse’s birthday library adventure… and what a lovely one it was 🐭🎂📚

A huge thank you to everyone at @malvernlibrary for such a warm welcome. Little Mouse loved joining you for a lovely storytime and sing song in the Story Den! It was such a special way to round off our birthday adventures. 💛

And of course, Little Mouse chose a book…

This time it was Squirrel and Bird by @laurabakerbooks & illustrated by @staceythomasmakes and published by @littletigerbooks. It’s a fabulous story about identity, self-expression and refusing to be defined by just one thing.❤️

We have absolutely loved visiting our local libraries and exploring all the wonderful things they are doing to promote & celebrate @go_all_in_2026 #nationalyearofreading2026 #readtothebeat 👏📚✨

Thank you again to all the lovely Malvern Library team for making our final stop such a happy one.

And just like that, our Little Mouse birthday library adventure comes to an end… eight wonderful stops, a stack of brilliant books, full hearts, and so many lovely memories made along the way. 🐭💛📚✨

Hmmm... what’s next for Little Mouse? Fancy another adventure? 🐭📚

#littlemouseisfine #farshorebooks #childrensbooks
What a lovely morning at @kidderminsterlibrary for What a lovely morning at @kidderminsterlibrary for the next stop on Little Mouse’s birthday adventure! 🐭📚❤️

We had a marvellous storytime (complete with a sing-song!), got busy with lots of Little Mouse crafts and explored everything the brilliant children’s library has to offer. Little Mouse even managed to squeeze in a game of chess before we left! ♟️🐭

The birthday book choice was Oak, the Littlest Leaf Girl by @illustratelucy & published by @walkerpicturebooks … it’s a beautiful story about facing change, finding courage and learning to voice difficult emotions. 🍂

A huge thank you to Lucy and all the wonderful Kidderminster Library team for looking after us so brilliantly.

With just one more stop to go, Little Mouse’s birthday library tour is almost at an end! It’s been so much fun to  celebrate @go_all_in_2026, the National Year of Reading and all the wonderful things our local libraries have to offer. 🥳

One more library stop to go… 🐭📚

#littlemouseisfine #farshorebooks #authorlife #library
Someone was VERY keen to get inside @bromsgrovelib Someone was VERY keen to get inside @bromsgrovelibrary 🐭📚😂

Another stop on Little Mouse’s birthday library adventure, and there was so much to see! Brilliant @go_all_in_2026 & #readtothebeat displays, shelves full of books, wonderful crocheted story characters… and even a meeting with the fabulous Bromsgrove Rousler! 👀🐭

A huge thank you to Issy, Nikki, Karen and all the lovely Bromsgrove Library team for making us so welcome. ❤️

And Little Mouse’s birthday book choice this time was Frank and Bert by @chris.naylor.ballesteros, published by @nosycrow ❤️ 

A funny story about friendship, hide-and-seek and discovering that sometimes making your friend happy matters more than winning. 🦊🐻

Another fabulous library & another book for Little Mouse’s growing birthday pile…

Just TWO more stops to go. Where will Little Mouse go next?🐭📚

#littlemouseisfine #authorlife #farshorebooks #library
Two years ago today we were at @waterstonesredditc Two years ago today we were at @waterstonesredditch celebrating the publication of Little Mouse is Absolutely, Completely, Totally FINE! 📚🥳🐭

Watching the little video back feels both like yesterday and a lifetime ago. It was an amazing day with family & friends, full of laughter & joy. I’m pretty sure that’s the lovely @hannahgold_author behind the camera capturing all the excitement. ❤️

There were books to sign, people to hug, children to meet, cake to eat and one very proud author trying to take it all in.

And now, two years later, Little Mouse is celebrating his birthday in the most fitting way possible by going on a library adventure! 

We’ve been visiting some of our wonderful local libraries, celebrating everything they do, joining in with @go_all_in_2026, and Little Mouse has been choosing a favourite book at each stop as his birthday treat. 📚

He’s already built up quite a little birthday book pile… and we’ve still got a few more libraries to visit 🥰

It feels so special that Little Mouse is still encouraging children to become body language detectives, express empathy and talk about emotions.

A huge thank you to everyone who has been part of this wonderful journey so far… my lovely agent, family, friends, critique partners, publisher, booksellers, librarians, teachers, readers… you’re all absolutely, completely, totally THE BEST! 

Happy 2nd birthday, Little Mouse. ❤️
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookies

Copyright © 2026 Sharon Hopwood, Children's Author. All rights reserved.

Manage Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
  • Manage options
  • Manage services
  • Manage {vendor_count} vendors
  • Read more about these purposes
View preferences
  • {title}
  • {title}
  • {title}