Any boy who turns up on their first day of school sporting a straw boater and a yellow-and-lime-green striped blazer is bound to turn a few heads. And just a quick glance at the extraordinary array of equipment Marshall Armstrong sets out on his

’ve always had friends that are ginger. Maybe that has something to do with why I like foxes so much…There are no words in your book, why?I chose a wordless format so that parents and children have to make decisions themselves. It would be too easy if I told

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