Stop That Egg! By Helen Poole (Frances Lincoln; €9.50 HB) tells of Mother Hen’s panic when one of her clutch of eggs rolls away from the henhouse.

NO, Baby, No!, by Grace Nichols (Bloomsbury; €8.35) is the story of a baby’s frustration when his adventurousness is thwarted by his family.

Josh Brolin admits ‘Jonah Hex’ has a similar story to Disney classic ‘Beauty and the Beast’.