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Re-Introducing ‘The Mental Health Moles’ Book

General News, The Mental Health Moles

By Luke Newman, founder/director of ‘For Men To Talk’.

Every since I was a child, I was fascinated by the Mr. Men books. I used to love my parents reading them to me, until I could read them myself and then I loved reading them to my own children, until they were older! The books are a series of brightly coloured, boldly drawn illustrations and introduces a different title character, with a different personality trait with a different a simple moral lesson in each book.

I used my love of the Mr. Men books and designed two cartoon moles, one with a bowler hat and one slightly smaller. I accompanied the moles with a four-page storyboard where the moles talked about different mental health illnesses and posted them on the ‘For Men To Talk’ social media channels every Monday. Twenty weeks later, I had twenty storyboards and I realised that with some small re-designs and more storyboards, I could make them into a book of my own.

Then just a few short weeks later, after some designing, re-designs, writing, proof reading, and re-writes, ‘The Mental Health Moles’ book was ready. I was advised to self-publish to earn as much revenue for ‘For Men To Talk’ for our early days of us as a company.

What was obvious and what I wanted, is that the book is suitable for men, women, boys and girls of all ages. I wrote this book to raise awareness of mental health no matter of your gender or age. I also wanted the text to be simple, with as little technical wording as possible so that it could be easily understood.

I undertook a very successful crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for the first print of the book. As well as the printed edition, I’ve been able to get it published digitally on Amazon Kindle.

I’m so proud of it. I’m loving hearing feedback to it. The idea of boys and girls reading it and it sparking meaningful conversations within the family around the subject of mental health is exactly what I wanted. The more discussions at a young age about how we are feeling, the better it will be for those youngsters growing up.Here are are just a few reviews that I have received after reading ‘The Mental Health Moles’ Book:


“I like The Mental Health Moles book because it is funny, colourful and cute. My favourite stories are about Christmas and Children. I learnt that it’s important for adults to talk to children about mental health because they might not understand what they are going through and that we need to talk about our problems when we feel bad like the story about Batmole! I took the book to school and read it to my teacher and classmates and they loved it too.”

“Simple but very effective. There are not many books out there that cover an age spectrum of 5 to 105 and is just as poignant for Male and Female. Every home should have one.”

“I have my signed copy on my coffee table and found my 6 year old Granddaughter reading it out loud today. Love that it is perfect for every age.”

“What is so clever, this is complicated stuff. This book should be huge. In four panels you’ve broken down mental health illnesses which is complicated, which others take chapters to discuss. It’s an artform.”

“You’ve taken subjects that so many people are scared of and you’ve hit the nail on the head, in a simple way.”

“I gave each of my kids (aged 7 and 9) a copy of the mental moles book and they’re really interacting with it. I’m already seeing that it’s opening up the conversations at home regarding mental health.”

“The mental health moles books is helping to normalise mental health more and helping to learn how to interact with others who have any kind of issues.”

“People have shelves of books they don’t read, but I reckon everyone who has this book reads it regularly because it’s so easy to read and so digestible.”

I am extremely proud of what I have achieved within the book over this last year. I am flattered by the amazing feedback that I have received. The next step will be to continue selling it via the ‘For Men To Talk’ meetings, social media, website, market stalls and craft fayres. But after being approached, I would really like the opportunity to talk about the book at local schools to highlight the need for boys and girls to talk about their mental health at early age.

‘The Mental Health Moles’ is available right now via:

All money goes towards supporting For Men To Talk who give men suffering with anxiety, depression and grief a chance to talk with other fellow sufferers.