A gentle bedtime story for the 3am wake-up, told under a rising moon on the rocks. Eight hermit crabs are stuck in shells they have outgrown, waiting for one new shell to start the exchange, and the answer turns out to be resting quietly on the windowsill of Freddie's own cottage. One by one, by moonlight, every crab moves into a home that finally fits, and little Petra draws herself in for the first time in three days. A story about letting go of what you have outgrown, at exactly the right speed.

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 bedtime stories, written to quiet an anxious mind and carry you down into sleep. You are not meant to reach the end.

If this one ends before y ...