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He didn’t see himself as a children’s-book author.

“I remember that Ian had the laser-jet printout lying around his apartment, and his friends would pick it up and say, ‘You must take this to an agent,’” recalls his eldest sister, Tonia Falconer Barringer. She was, in other words, a very real child, despite the hoofs - possibly the realest child to enter the kids’-lit canon since Russell Hoban’s refusenik badger, Frances.Īll the more wonder then that Olivia came very close to remaining a self-published book forever. Olivia the piglet was headstrong and stubborn, but funny in her own accidental way, and wildly perceptive about the world around her. The heroine was called Olivia, and she was a piglet - partly because she was named after Falconer’s young niece, who had an adorably upturned nose, and partly because pigs were intelligent, and also an enormous amount of fun to draw. Ian Falconer’s first book was self-published in 1996 - printed on laser jet and given to his sister’s family as a Christmas present.