These mirrored letters from Graham & Green cost £9.50 each. The range also includes an ampersand and an exclamation mark – so you can really make your point! And if your child wants to hide away in his own little calico wigwam, buy this fun version

Scribbling your child’s height on the kitchen wall will be a thing of the past with this fabulous tailor’s measuring tape Height Chart, £30, from Graham & Green. The chart has sections for family members who are small, medium, large and even extra

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vintage sari fabric, costs £48 from Cox & Cox.* The Barbapapa melamine dinner set, including plate, bowl and beaker. Decorated with the Barbapapa characters,it costs £17.95 at Graham & Green.

for Graham Greene’s classic film noir The Third Man, while for our children, it is the fairground rides of the Prater district which enthral. Vienna has museums to suit all tastes and ages, including a Children’s Museum, next to which is a waist

temporary at bedtime, or for a more prolonged period of a parent being away. 26Green Eggs And Hamby Dr Seuss HarperCollins, £4.99 (first published 1960)Not only is this book one of Dr Suess’s finest adventures into the joy of language, with its