Tim and Nothing: A Nature Myth

Tim and Nothing
A book for all age groups.
In the beginning Tim's vacation is not much fun, even though they are in a nice cottage in the country. His mother is sick, his dad irritable, and he has no friends with him, - just his dog Tea. All there is to do is look at the hills and listen to the winds in the trees.
But then he hears the Winds speak. That starts a very different vacation.
Maybe he shouldn't let those winds take him and Tea to the mountain top; but he does. There he meets Gladys, a girl of sunlight, sent by the Sun to hunt the world's destroyer – Nothing.
To help her, and, he hopes, to help his mother as well, Tim goes with her into the mountain. Here are dark tunnels, and strange caves. One is for silence; one for sleep; one for mad thoughts that attack him, to steal his mind.
A Bat and a Tune join them, and help them to the other side of the mountain.
Once through the mountain there is a great inland sea, with a shore where a tree gives them food, water gives them rest, and a house gives them shelter and welcome. A crow joins them.
But then Nothing appears and brings storm and destruction so they must flee again, across the sea. Tim builds a raft from window shutters, and sets sail. But Nothing follows them, and, with Storm and Hot-air, attacks them. Crow disappears, Bat is killed, Gladys fades and is taken back by Sun. Tim and Tea are alone.
A friendly Whirlpool rescues Tim and Tea by sucking them beneath the sea into the dreamworld of Earth's memory. Here is a gentle river, and a desert of rocks, sand and fossils. All is peaceful here, and ancient memories of Earth's past surge out of rocks to be alive again for a few moments.