Twelve tales, one for each month of the year. These parable like stories offer young readers and adults alike insights into the things that really matter in life: kindness, love, giving, understanding and celebration.

Many of the stories are about this woderful world of ours, about the wonder of creation and its creator.

This is Kenneth's first novel for 8 to 12's. It is a Scottish story, set in the Hebrides, and it's thoroughly appropriate that it should be published by a Scottish publisher.

A tale about a lost Spanish Armanda galleon and about the great storm in which it is found, this is also a very real account of growing up on an island and about the lives of two children in particular - Michael and Maria.