2017 / Hardback / 32 pages / UK
*
Repurposing a dead author's illustrations to check off laudable attributes that can't possibly all apply to all dads and seem a bit judgemental for a modern publication. Bad luck if you're short.
2011 / Pop-up board book / 12 pages / UK
***
The daytime counterpart to her Bedtime book, there's some more interesting overlapping going on and entire characters haven't been edited out by a roughhousing toddler this time, which is always a bonus.
1995 / Pop-up hardback / 12 pages / UK
*****
I don't know if I was ever read this story or just absorbed it passively through the early education ether, but it's very nice and this pop-up/slider/wheel adaptation is more impressive than it was required to be, even if she just obsesses over the one page.
2007 / Jigsaw board book / 18 pages / UK
****
Animals and a choo-choo in a jigsaw seemed like a winning combination, but she couldn't care less. I thought it was clever, anyway. Maybe she'd have preferred the ABC train, since she's always singing that. I'm out of touch already.
2014 / Book and model pack / 24 pages / UK
**
Finally, after all the refunds and a return, a gift set arrived as more than just the boring book part, since it's glued in this time. The extras are just some cardboard, admittedly, but she seems to like her first cheapo playset. We might get around to reading the book one of these years.
