Silly Sea by Jack Tickle (Caterpillar Books; €10.66 HB) is a big aquatic book with a pop-up water-spouting whale, a pincer-snapping crab, a clapping seal and many more in-your-face marine creatures, each accompanied with a jaunty rhyme.

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.