Jane Simmons

Ebb, Flo, Mum and Bird go for a picnic by the shore, but soon some greedy gulls swoop down and eat all the food and Ebb is blamed. Ebb goes off to her favourite place and sulks, but when a storm blows in and it's time to go home Ebb is nowhere to be seen.

Flo and Mum are busy and Bird is talking to the ducks, which means Ebb is left on her own. So she sets off to find someone to play with. Suddenly, there's a little cry 'Wah! Wah!', it's a baby seal. At last! A friend for Ebb! But the baby seal is a long way from home. It's up to Ebb and the family to find the baby seal's mother.

When the owners of "Prosperity" choose a little kitten to be their new ship's cat, they think he's a girl and name him Doris! But soon Doris finds this isn't his only problem: settling into life on board and finding his place alongside the ship's dogs, Little Madge and Big John, and Freda, their dotty bird, is going to be tricky.

Daisy the duckling becomes so engrossed in watching fish and playing lily pads that she temporarily loses her mother.