The author has been teaching children with Special Educational Needs for over thirty years. Throughout this time she was constantly striving to find appropriate reading material for her pupils. The text needed to be able to sustain the pupils interest and be at a level the pupils did not find 'insulting.' Another essential quality was that the text should encourage the pupils to expand their reading horizons. Such material appeared to be quite scarce! To address this problem the author has produced her own series of short stories, Black Moon is the first.