The Origin
The voice in the dark.
A father told his children bedtime stories about a snail called Eric and his friend Wally the Worm. Thirty years later his son gave him a book.
A photograph from the day will live here.
Where it started
In the early 1990s, in a quiet bedroom in the south of England, Trevor Field told his children stories at bedtime. The stories were about a snail called Eric, his friend Wally the Worm, and the small life beneath the world of giants.
There were no books. No screens. Just a father's voice in the dark, and the unhurried quality of an evening before the internet existed.
What happened in between
The children grew up. The bedtime stories stayed with one of them — the one who couldn't sleep — through school, through university, through everything that comes after.
Thirty years on, that child became a father himself, and turned the stories into a book. He gave it to Trevor on his birthday.
The birthday
Trevor opened it slowly. He read his own name on the cover. He recognised the snail and the worm. He didn't say very much.
A few weeks later, he asked when the next one was coming.
Now
Eric & Wally is now being made by both of them, with the patience of two people who already know that nothing here is in a hurry. Trevor's voice will appear, in his own time, when he is ready.