2018 / Library book / 32 pages / UK
**
I like to break out of the toddler stacks, but there's not much point reading this to someone who can't work out the unspoken scenario for themselves, and it's not a situation she'll experience. I'm not going through all that again. Still, a cat craving and graphically eating a fish helps that inevitable conversation along. Attenborough next.
2019 / Puzzle book / 32 pages / UK
***
Licensed Where's Wally knock-offs haven't moved on in the quarter century since Where's Sonic. Pretty spreads, but why do they all take the simplified route? Give the kids some credit and their parents more peace.
2022 / Library book / 10 pages / UK
**
Several species of sharks chomp and perform less exciting movements. Producing so many minor variations on the same book to cater for kids' differing taste in predators is evidently a good business model.
1992 / Read by a bloke on Teletubbies / 32 pages / UK
***
Abandoned babies learn to be self-reliant.
Various, The Hutchinson Treasury of Stories to Read Aloud
*****
What a keeper. Early favourites:
- The Letter (Frog and Toad Are Friends)
- Titch
- The Stinky Cheese Man
- Harry the Dirty Dog
