A calm bedtime story for when your thoughts race at night, about an impossible wish that comes true sideways. Celestina, a softly glowing jellyfish, longs to see the stars, but a jellyfish cannot look up; Prince Freddie and his quick friend Tia spend the afternoon guiding her to the sheltered Moon Pool, where the whole night sky lies reflected on the still water. An unhurried little adventure that ends in an hour of perfect stillness under the Milky Way.

Prince Freddie is a small dog in a flat gold crown who lives in a sleepy village on the Spanish coast, where the days are warm, the sea is always close, and nothing is ever in a hurry. These are slow sleep stories, written to quiet an anxious mind and soften the end of the day. You are not meant to reach the end.

If this one ends before you do, there is a longer telling. The Settle, N ...