Books for kids...

Pairs In The Garden by Smiriti Prasadam-Halls and Lorna Scobie

This board book is entertaining and educational for three-year-olds and upwards. Each highly decorative page teems with garden creatures and various challenges. Find, for example, 10 ants, and on the same page find matching pairs of caterpillars behind lift-the-flaps. Half the fun is trying to remember what is behind each flap, and as a bonus — learning to count to 10. Hours of fun.

Captain McGrew Wants You For His Crew by Mark Sperring (Bloomsbury, €8.20)