Books for children

Don’t Poke A Worm Till It Wriggles by Celia Warren (Bloomsbury; €6.30) is a ‘book of poems to make you squirm’.

Various smiley worms with googly eyes slither and burrow throughout the poetic pages of this slim volume. What is a Worm? A string with a wiggle| A rope with no knot| A ribbon with nothing to tie| A finger-sized soil-bag| A root with no pot| The gleam in [ a blackbird’s eye. This is a laugh-aloud book for the newly independent reader.

Super Cat Vs The Chip Thief by Jeanne Willis, illustrated by Jim Field (HarperCollins; €7.50).