The women of Ireland showed who were the real bosses of the Dublin Horse Show yesterday by taking centre stage from any visiting US rock star.

The Very Greedy Bee by Steve Smallman and Jack Tickle (Little Tiger; €9.50 HB) is a salutary lesson about the alienation caused by greed.

HIPPO In The House by Lisa Regan, illustrated by Kelly Byrne (Bloomsbury; €5.92) is one of the Wild Things series, which introduce the very young to zoo animals.