Kirjahaku

Giants are rare these days, but a huge one is generated from an object flying from space. A hermit witnesses the events that take place after the giant's arrival which will leave a permanent effect on the people, landscape and future a small island.

Have you ever see figures or shapes of objects formed by clouds in the sky or in tree trunks? This story is about a small boy who sees a horse's face outlined in the trunk of a rotten tree and witnesses a transformation which echoes from the past.

Most people would like a pot of gold, but things are not always as they seem. This story tells of a mother and son who become rich, but a golden life has its consequences and is not the real answer to happiness.

Often churches have empty seats but are these really empty? Is there someone sitting next to you? Could it be your guardian angel? Perhaps it's not only churches where empty seats are occupied by your guardian angels. Have you ever sat down in a chair and felt a sudden breeze or chill blowing cold against your heated cheeks when the whole room is warm or felt your car rock on a windy day? We all go on our busy lives concentrating on what we are doing or think we must do. We don't take notice of everything around us especially anything unusual or extraordinary. Christians, Muslims, Buddhists and Jews believe there are guardian angels that watch over you and may also guide you. In the catholic catechism it says that, 'From infancy to death all human life is surrounded by the watchful care and intercession of angels.' Angels have been around long before human souls existed, supervised by archangels and activated by God. Some people believe we always have access to angels. All we have to do is ask. There are millions upon millions of angels all around us, but many have a local presence. They will influence your senses and imagination, but not your will and remain with you even in heaven and may even be sitting right next to you right now.

Dominance by humans was no more. Evolution had produced a spectrum of various kinds of unusual animals. A small population of humans remained on the earth but were only a few millimetres tall. At this size they were vulnerable to every kind of predator. They found themselves trapped within a piece of wood patrolled by insects and finally, on their exodus, live inside a leaf.

A story that embraces our different appearances or physical deformities as something that all should accept in nature's realm. New attributes can come to the forefront which would never have been seen before. It's not what we look like. Nature has moulded unimaginable forms which through mistakes or accidents may undermine what we think is the norm. Disability should not be seen as a hindrance. Resourcefulness and determination can outshine any handicap. You are yourself, you are you and nothing or nobody is going to change it. You have the right, just as every creature on this earth has, to exist and be who you are. This story is about a little fruit fly born with shrivelled short wings. Unlike the other flies he cannot fly away and is vulnerable to being ridiculed or eaten by other creatures. While living on a plum in a farmer's field he is subjected to abuse by various insects but manages to overcome this and survive through winter.

Many years ago, most people believed in God and especially souls. They often gave funds to help gain a place in purgatory. Nowadays the concept of a soul is treated by many as a joke. This story rekindles the concept of a soul and how the devil is always ready to take away someone's soul. He is there every hour, every day, and every year to mess things up. Paul leases a pawnbroker's shop and finds he is faced with selling something other than jewellery and mobile phones. Something happens that changes the lives

Near a big city lived a very wicked witch. She had lost one of her cats who ran away. She found it eventually, but forced it to live in her nursery rhyme book forever. While inside it ran amuck so that the stories were never the same as before.

In legend there have always been sea witches linked to storms at sea and taking down drowned humans into their world. This story is about a man who jumps into the sea to retrieve his mobile phone and is dragged into a large cavern where two other witches lie in wait. What is his fate? Will he escape or become just another source of food for the three witches? One can have a sedentary life on the shore but not so under the sea.

Many people, as children, had donkey rides on the beach. Every day a man brought his donkeys down a small lane to the beach. This lane became known as Donkey Lane until finally, as the years went by it was given the name Dead Donkey Lane for reasons that will be found in this fictional story.

Many of us like to eat chocolate Easter eggs at Easter. The supermarkets have them piled up by the entrance and on the shelves inside. This story is about an egg, but not a chocolate one. One that was much bigger than any bird's eggs today. It was found by a boy one morning in his garden. Nobody knew where it came from, what it actually was and more importantly what was inside it.

You've probably seen films on pest control where hundreds of mice are found living in a barn. The pest controller lifts up a board and out they scuttle in all directions. Well this story is about mice, more than one could ever imagine or count that take over a village and cause chaos.

This fictional story was written in winter. Not like a normal winter. Rain, when it landed quickly, froze and ice completely covered the roads and anything in sight. This affected every living creature, some more than others including birds and in this case a blackbird.

We often hear words spoken which have their origins in cockney slang, just slang, or even past dialects such as from Dorset. This book gives some examples of each, in a few days in the life of a man and his wife. The text could be used to illustrate examples by reading it out to students or to others interested in dialects.