HAPPY 30TH ANNIVERSARY!

IT’S 30 years since the first publication of ELMER by David McKee (Andersen Press £6.99) and this beautiful collectors’ edition, celebrating patchwork elephant Elmer’s pride in being different, comes with a fabulous, colourful print for the bedroom wall.

And who doesn’t remember the best ever book about poo?! Happy anniversary to THE STORY OF THE LITTLE MOLE WHO KNEW IT WAS

NONE OF HIS BUSINESS by Werner Holzwarth, illustrated by Wolf Erlbruch (Pavilion £6.99) which is a timeless detective story involving a very smelly blob of, um, poo . . . guaranteed to have them giggling.

Percy the Park Keeper also made his first appearance 30 years ago and his latest adventure, ONE SPRINGY

DAY by Nick Butterworth (Harper Collins £12.99), involves a game of hide and seek with all his favourite animal friends. Small children will love the huge fold-out page towards the end.