Stormy Weather by Debi Gliori Bloomsbury, £10.99, 2+Mummy Fox is about to put her cub to bed: “Pull up the quilt, turn out the light, dear child, it’s time to say goodnight.” To put his mind at rest before sleeping, she tells him about all the other animals in the world who are r...

Picture Book Of The Year *Highly Commended*Slightly Invisible by Lauren Child Orchard Books, £10.99, 3+The inspiration for Lauren Child’s latest visit to Charlie and Lola land occurred at a book signing. “A little boy said to me, almost under his

Ganesha’s Sweet Tooth by Sanjay Patel and Emily Haynes Chronicle £10.99, 3+Have you heard the story of how Ganesha broke his tusk? The Hindu god’s ivory folly may not be as ingrained in our collective consciousness as other time-honoured fables, but this beautifully designed twi...

Too Noisy! By Malachy Doyle and Ed Vere Walker, £11.99, 4+They say silence is golden and, for Sam Bungle, the lone introvert among a cacophony of crashing, whistling, wheezing relatives, the calm of quiet is an irrepressible craving. So off he trots, all Dennis The Menace knitwea...

The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook by Deb Perelman Square Peg, £20You may not have heard of Deb Perelman, but among the foodie community of New York, she is held in reverential esteem. Cooking, photographing and blogging from her bijou Manhattan kitchen, mother-of-one Perelman racks up...

Le Cookie by Mickael Benichou (Ryland Peters & Small, £9.99)If there were to be a dessert Olympics, the two nations that would surely have the competition licked would be France and the good ole’ US of A. One, the purveyors of Parisian pâtisserie, pretty pastel-hued macaroons and...

No Matter What by Debbie Gliori (£5.99, Bloomsbury)Little Fox Small want to test the limits of his mother's love. Would she love him if he were a grizzly bear or snappy crocodile? This gorgeous book deals sensitively with a young child

Big and small, hit and miss, up and down, hot and cold – discovering the world of opposing elements is one of the stock-in-trades for young children. This vibrant book takes a tried-and-tested topic and skillfully transforms it into a stunning work

butterfly!Where Is Fred by Edward Hardy and Ali Pye (Egmont, £10.99)Don't miss... Our exclusive chat with Where Is Fred? illustrator Ali PyePlus find out which book won Most Promising New Talent 2012

Shaw (Frances Lincoln, £11.99).Who won Picture Book of the Year 2012?There's an interesting miscellany of animal tenants in the apartment block where Auntie Iris (a chinchilla) lives with her family. For a start, there's the grumpy cohort of bears