I Want A Pet by Lauren Child (Frances Lincoln, £5.99)Lauren Child's tale of an animal loving little girl and her not-so-keen family has typically witty rhetoric and inventive, sketchy illustrations. Children who find their demands for a menagerie

’s Compost Stew is an irreverent rhyming tale about the perfect recipe for nurturing the earth while Double Delights Farm by Mary Novick is a lift-the-flap book teaching children about the animals and people you might encounter on a farm.4. The Farming

41. The Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame Egmont, £5.99 It might be 100 years old, but this novel about Ratty, Mole, Badger, Toad and the other animals of the riverbank is an evocation of rural England that still captures the imagination

by surreal, dreamlike illustrations makes for a perfect slumbertime read, while a series of fact pages about the moon and nocturnal animals provide an educational slant. Ages 1–7.

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

on his own terms. First published in 1999, children delight in the playful antics of prancing animals, brilliantly evoked in exuberant style by illustrator Guy Parker-Rees, but there’s also a simple moral about tolerance and daring to be different

THERE’S A RETURN to the multifarious charms of 1977 animated classic The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh – only these days, Christopher Robin has a pair of Hunter wellies strategically product-placed outside his bedroom door. But the rest

it into a solid picture book.I always try to write about what excited me as a child in the hope that children will share that same excitement. Stories of feral Mogli-esque children have always fascinated me and as a child I adored animals and daydreamed

in a cafe and something about him made me laugh.  Then suddenly all these ideas for funny little stories sprang into my head so I jotted them down as fast as I could. It was like Claude had been waiting in my head waiting to leap out into a book

to be on duty over Christmas. I felt a deep sense of gratitude and wanted to share this feeling with everybody. I wanted to remind everybody about these people.2) Are you a parent yourself? What do your children think about the book? I have a daughter called