When he was a little boy, he had always feared for the Three Blind Mice, so in his version, the mice are not blind. They wear sunglasses and are much faster runners than the Farmer's wife. He said, "As a child I liked mice. They were the only pets that my parents allowed me to have. In the book, she doesn't get their tails." Many of the other rhymes, though, he leaves just as scary as can be.
