Illustrator: Krystyna Turska

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton (1988)

Pages: 32

Benny lives with an old tramp on a broken-down canal barge. He longs to play with the children he sees, to live with a family in a proper house, and to be fed sticky sweets. One day, Benny gets the chance to do all these things, but the results are not quite as he had expected.