A delightful book of silly poems written for children of all ages

A naughty lamb is told off by her mum when she snags her wool on some wire. When she sees a beautiful butterfly, she wishes she could learn how to fly like it, so she asks her friend, Blakie the blackbird, to teach her. He tells her that lambs are not known to fly, but she does not expect his solution.

When Cal the caveboy cannot reach the lowest branch of a nearby tree he comes up with the cunning plan of enlisting the help of a giant tortoise. However, once he is up the tree, the tortoise ambles off, leaving him stranded. His mother asks him to help his little sister, Aggy, to find her necklace. But a rattlesnake bares its fangs at him. What should he do?

Can Florence Fisher accept Lord Head's proposal of marriage to save her family from ruin? On a visit to Cockermouth her carriage is waylaid and it overturns, injuring her maid, Sybil, and they are forced to stay in the forest for two days with their abductor, Luke Lancaster. On her return home Florence vows to forget the way Luke's advances have affected her. She accepts Lord Head, but at the engagement party, before the engagement is formally announced, Luke turns up and sends her emotions into turmoil.

When sixteen-year old Amelia finds a beautiful, blue, peacock-embossed perfume bottle in the overgrown garden of the derelict house left to her in her father's will in the late Victorian era, she is curious to discover how it came to be there. We then travel back nearly sixty years to Daisy, and her obsession with making her own perfume, and the tragic consequences of her actions.