In the story, the boy finds amber stones and follows the trail of these, collecting them for his mother. Jackie Morris uses a variety of synonyms for these stones.
- a pale shard of shining light
- a piece of amber, smoothed by the oceans, coloured, clear and beautiful, ike a fragment of fire, washed ashore from a far-off place.
- a trail of shining amber
- bright jewels
- fallen stars
- each shining piece
- the brightest and the best
- the treasure
- the smooth beads of amber
- the amber treasure
- the amber
