The book is cut in the shape of the rabbit, which is the first thing a baby notices and the reason this one gets picked up off a pile. Inside, a cottontail works through an ordinary day: out into the meadow, nosing after grass and dandelions, a run around with the other kits, then back to the nest before dark.

Wednesday Kirwan's artwork has a warm, slightly retro softness that grown ups tend to like as much as babies do, and the text carries real facts about wild cottontails alongside the story, so the adult reading it aloud learns something too. Ten thick pages, six and a half by five inches, weighted and sized for hands that are still working out how pages go.

Graded by the publisher from birth. Written by Rosalee Wren, and one of the easiest nursery gifts to get right.