A calm bedtime story for when your mind won't slow down, set on a Spanish beach in the off season. The tourists have gone, the volleyball nets are down, and the low winter sun leaves long shadows and warm sun-puddles in the sand. Prince Freddie and his human walk the shore together with nobody to account to, collecting the deeper, less worn shells the winter storms bring in, keeping some and returning others. A slow, unhurried story about a quieter version of a familiar place, and about how good it is to have nothing to do and all morning to do it in.

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 unhurried sleep stories, written to quiet an anxious mind and soften the end of the day. You are no ...