How it began

Lucy first came up with the idea of The Motley Crew when playing with her daughters and their soft toys. As a child, she had always loved soft toys and felt they were almost real people. What did they do when people weren’t around? Did they have their own little (or big) personalities? Did they all have fun together?

As an adult and seeing the fun that her girls were having playing with them all, Lucy realised that she could make up her own answers to those questions now… And so The Motley Crew had its inception!

These stories are, above all, meant to be fun to read together. But they aim to be more than that. Each character has their strengths and weaknesses, and they all teach and learn from their friends, just as we all should do. Hopefully, these stories are able to make you smile while celebrating such important values like empathy, teamwork and kindness.