, then even cleaning out the hutch or goldfish bowl. But always keep a close supervisory eye.• Guinea pigs, hamsters and rabbits make excellent first pets. They are easy to look after and very affectionate in return. Get them as babies as this will get them

of Benjamin Mee, We Built A Zoo tells the tale of a widower (played by a dashingly dishevelled Matt Damon), his son Dylan and impossibly cute daughter Rosie, who go looking for greener pastures and find them covered in animal dung. After rashly buying a

’ and make all your dreams come true CBeebies LIVE is the show for you.Bonnet WorkshopApril 5Show off either your custom designed bonnet or crown at Cardiff Castle and join in the parade around the grounds.Egg HuntApril 6 – 10Look out for the white rabbit

Born in the Chinese Year of the Rabbit, perhaps it was fate that dictated that Dick Bruna should find inspiration from a sweet little white rabbit. Since her very first incarnation as a scribbled drawing for Bruna’s young son in 1955, Miffy

. During that time, I had just one book – about Van Gogh – which I looked at literally thousands of times. Then, eventually after the war, when I visited Paris, I was able to go and see those Van Gogh paintings for real. It was a wonderful moment

at the station with a sign reading “Please look after this bear”. Kindly Mr and Mrs Brown adopt him – to their well-meaning cost! 63The BFGby Roald Dahl Puffin, £5.99 (first published 1982)Despite Sophie being scared of him when she first sees him

HOTEL FOR DOGS LOOKING AFTER A dog is notoriously hard work with all the feeding, walking and poop-scooping, so imagine having an entire hotel full of demanding pooches to pander to. For Andi (Emma Roberts) and her little brother Bruce (Jake

rabbit and a horse – who have a dressing up contest. What inspired it?“Often children ask, ‘Have you done a horse or a mouse?’, and I’d always wanted a horse in my books because they are nice to draw. I chose them for the illustrations really

that, despite my best efforts, still looked more like rabbit droppings.Mario summoned one of his minions to fetch a glass of chilled white wine (he did offer one to Grace, which made her blush, as she settled for a lemonade) and Grace and I were left

puppet show, little boys played in the carpenter’s workshop, and more would-be princesses were dressed and preened by the make-up artist in the vast changing room. But Eleanor and Lloyd, after dressing Andy in a rabbit costume and playing hide