This collection of twelve original stories explores the relationships between fathers and sons, from a boy who longs for a different father, to a boy who has a digital father from the future.

The wordwatcher / Joseph Wallace -- My dad's a punk / Sean Taylor -- Twenty crows / Ron Koertge -- The journey to Ompah / Tim Wynne-Jones -- Superdad / Francis McCrickard -- Later / Simon Cheshire -- Whooosh! / Daniel Weitzman -- Street corner dad / Alan Gibbons -- Handheld / Daniel Ehrenhaft -- Begi-Begi and Jill-Jillie / Farrukh Dhondy -- Cut me, and I bleed khaki / Terence Blacker -- Glorious Fergus / Andrew Daddo.