The baby from Bunny Roo, I Love You can walk now, and that changes the game. Where the first book was about soothing a newborn, this one is about chasing a toddler, and the animal comparisons shift accordingly: a hopping frog, a squirming snake, a duckling who squawks and splashes the moment she touches water.

When you touched the water, you squawked and splashed. I thought you'd become a duckling, so I jumped in to play with you. That is the register throughout, warm and a little breathless, written by a mother who is very obviously outmatched and delighted about it.

Teagan White returns with the same vintage naturalist illustration that made the first book a baby shower staple, all soft palettes, cattails, waterlilies and framed floral borders. The two books look like a matched pair on a shelf, which is exactly why they are so often bought together.

A hardcover that suits the eighteen month to three year old stretch, when a child wants to hear about a character doing what they are doing. Give both, or give this one to a family that already owns the first.