One day a chicken and a duck decided it was simply A Lovely Day for Knitting. The two friends gather up all the equipment they will need for knitting, starting with wool, knitting needles, and a knitting pattern book. Once they have everything together, they realise neither can actually knit! So the chicken and the duck travel into town to buy some knitted clothes that they can wear about the farm, and they live happily ever after in their tiny little sweaters. What's the moral of this story? We spend a lot of time talking about doing things, but don't actually get around to doing them. It's a case of more being said than done. A nurse lecturer in Perth, Australia, David J. Stanley has now written two children's rhyming books. "I was sitting on my porch while I was working as a volunteer teaching midwifery in Africa, and I was watching the farm animals that ran about the hospital compound. The idea just came to me. I had no 'modern day' distractions, so I had a lot of time to feed and exercise my imagination. As well, my mum has always been a keen knitter, so this must have found a nook in my mind." Publisher's website: http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/ALovelyDayForKnitting.html