It's rotten having a birthday just before Christmas. Sometimes Toby gets just one present for both his birthday and Christmas. Sometimes people just give him money because they've run out of present ideas. Then when he comes to spend that money there's hardly anything left in the shops. It's the same this year. He can't find anything he wants. An old man, who reminds him of his Grandpa Jack, is sitting cold and hungry on the street. Toby thinks of another use for his birthday money. What he does afterwards reminds his Grandpa Jack of a well-known Christmas song. On the Feast of Stephen by Gill and Ashleigh James is a feel-good story for early readers.