Children’s Books

YUCK! That’s Not a Monster! by Angela McAllister and Alison Edgson (Little Tiger; €13.90) is the story of a misfit. Mr and Mrs Monster are thrilled when their gloriously ugly offspring, Frightful and Horrid, are hatched out.

But when the third child, aptly named Little Shock, hatches – fluffy pink, with not so much as a wart or a fang – they are mortified. A funny, imaginative story for age four-plus

The following two books are shortlisted for The Bisto Book of the Year Award: