This series of picture books tell stories of creatures that live in, on or around the Royal Military Canal in Kent.

In each book a different creature faces an almost human type problem that needs solving with the help of their friends.

Each book contains a fact file on the main story creature which provides interesting and relevant details to learn from.

The stories are presented in rhyming couplets and are beautifully illustrated with watercolour paintings.

Skipper David Peters is a real fisherman who works from the Hastings beach in East Sussex. For a remarkable sixty-one years he ventured out in all weathers to fish the waters of the English Channel.

Known as Spider to his fellow fishermen, he found it very hard to stop working when he retired at the age of seventy-nine. He looked to pass some of his time by mending nets on the seafront at Hastings where he is a favourite of the tourists who love hearing his stories about his time at sea.

David also holds the British record for landing the country’s biggest ever plaice that weighed in at an incredible 20lb 10oz and is displayed in the Fishermen’s Club, All Saints Street, Hastings.

While the stories in the series are works of fiction, the character of David Peters the Skipper is portrayed as accurately as possible.