from your fellow fauna can be rather a nuisance. The calm of Sid’s favourite tree is disrupted by a flock of chirping sparrows. And when he slithers off to the allotment, a trio of singing foxes begins to bellow. Over in the playground, those lively

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