Billy Brown is mystified to learn that the Queen does not understand a mathsproblem that is perfectly clear to him. It seems that nobody in the royalhousehold, at court or anywhere in the Queen's castles can explain the knottyproblem to Her Majesty. And so Billy decides that the kind thing would be to goto the royal palace and explain it to her. He persuades his mother to drive himall the way to the palace, and he makes his way right into the Queen's room andsits down on her bed to explain all about fractions and division. And hesucceeds, where everyone before him has failed. The Queen is delighted. Sodelighted that she becomes firm friends with Billy and his mum and even comesto visit them in their humble abode ...About the AuthorAlison Healy has worked as a journalist with the Irish Times for almost 17years, and with the Farmers Journal for eight years before that. Shespecialises in food and farming issues and is currently on a career break. Thisis her first children's book and she is also ghost writing the autobiography ofAnna May McHugh, managing director of the National Ploughing Championships. Oneof her short stories, `Grace', was selected for the Stories for the Earcompilation produced by Kildare Arts Service last October. She was alsoshortlisted in Fish Publishing's Flash Fiction Awards announced earlier thisyear."
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