Snow Friends by M Christina Butler and Tina Macnaughton (Little Tiger; €9.50).

THE Very Noisy Jungle by Kathryn White and Gill Guile (Little Tiger; €9.50 HB)

TWEET, Tweet in the Tree by Julie Fletcher and Anna Lubecka (Caterpillar Books, €6.30) is a handy-sized board book for toddlers aged 18 months who are at the stage of identifying animals and birds. The loud colours and simple shapes, along with easy rhyming read-aloud words, create the perfect bedtime book.