Snuggle Nuzzles

‘“Got to go,” said Mummy, giving Little Sheep a snuggle nuzzle’ – various other farmyard mothers give their versions of comfort while she’s away, but somehow sniffy doggy snuffles, beaky goosey pecks, and so on, are not quite adequate. A repetitive cumulative text helps Little Sheep fill the time till his mum returns.

Cheerfully illustrated and gently reassuring, this is a pleasant, if unexceptional, addition to the Hodder Toddler series, dealing with a circumstance common to young children’s experience.