A Fly Went by ¦ The Bear Detectives ¦ The Best Nest ¦ Bears in the Night ¦ There's a Wocket in my Pocket! ¦ Mr Brown Can Moo! Can You?

£7.50 worth of pure gold so far as learner readers are concerned. The first relates in suitably breathless, cumulative rhyme, a frantic dash by a succession of animals: the cause?...'just a sheep, With an old tin can!' There's another chase, also related in rhyme, in the second story: this time it's The Bear Detectives, plus Papa Bear and Snuff, in hot pursuit of a pumpkin thief. No rhyming in The Best Nest but it's great fun all the same. Broody Mrs Bird wants to move house but, after a series of misadventures, finally comes round to the idea that there's no place like home.

The second trio ... Beginning Beginners - have 32 as opposed to 64 pages. Bears in the Night, one of the all-time favourites in the series and until recently also a Picture Lion, tells of the nocturnal doings of seven small adventures. The two Seuss's are utter nonsense of the rhyming variety: Mr Brown, with its open invitation to try all those Pops, Klopps, Dibbles and Dops, is sure to be especially popular.