It also gives a few nods to parents who might be reading the book to their kids.

The book has strong themes of self-determination and believing in yourself, proven topics for children’s books. The mouse in the book is based on Brian’s life, growing up smaller than the other kids but determined to play serious football. “But because every night I’m reading books to my children - I have three children, Bria, Brian, and Brielle, 9, 5, and 3 - and always trying to give them a good story with a good meaning, a good lesson behind it.” It would not have made sense,” said Westbrook. “If Leslie came to me with this idea 20 years ago when I was 22 years old with no kids and family, I would not have done this book.

I was watching a lot of kids’ movies at the time and thought, ‘Oh, we can make that cute.’” I was trying to think of a very small animal that has a big heart,” she said. “I just kind of had that image of a mouse in my head. She had never covered Westbrook as a reporter - he had left the Eagles before she started covering sports - but said she had met him several times before approaching him with an idea for a picture book. Van Arsdall, who was cut from Philly TV station CBS3 in a wave of layoffs in 2020, is a mother of two young boys.

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