The year is 2041 and the fastest cars on the planet are racing through gleaming cities and scorching deserts. Each one arrives on the page half built, with flat dark gaps where its bodywork should be, and the stickers are the missing parts. Find the windscreen, the vents, the headlights and the wing, press them into place, and Dragon fires its booster jets off a crumbling bridge while Gripp and Punkture tear after it.

What keeps a child in the book after the last sticker is down is the reading. Every car has its own story and a statistics panel of colored bars, so the race can be argued over and the winner decided on the numbers. The stickers are big enough for a five year old to place without help, and the pages are large enough that each finished car looks like a poster.

Quiet, flat and light, so it goes in the bag for a long drive or a waiting room. The same big pages and statistics panels come with warriors, trains, monster trucks and Greek gods in the rest of the series here.