Look Out Sally on the Farm ¦ Look Out Katy in the Town ¦ Look Out Tim in the Park ¦ Look Out Maz in the Jungle

The storyline in each of these four books is identical; a baby animal - duckling, kitten, puppy and chimp - wanders off and has a series of narrow escapes from danger or trouble. But this potentially exciting idea is rendered dull and boring. The true-to-life pictures, though well executed individually, do not develop or carry the story forward and the short present-tense text is almost interchangeable between the four titles. Children of four to five would be able to tell a far more exciting story for themselves. Surely we ought to have moved on from here by now?