A forest is mostly hiding places, and this book knows exactly who is hiding. Deer, foxes, squirrels, badgers and more woodland creatures wait among the over 250 stickers, and every beautifully illustrated woodland scene has room for all of them, from sunlit clearings to the undergrowth where the snails and butterflies live.

Filling each page is a small act of world building. The child decides where the fox bounds and where the rabbits graze, tells the story out loud while doing it, and practices the peel and place motion that quietly builds the fine motor control early writing depends on. At this size the book lives in a bag and comes out wherever waiting happens.

By Caroline Young, illustrated by Gareth Lucas, whose patterned animals give the Little First Stickers series its signature look. The set grows naturally with Little First Stickers Zoo and Little First Stickers Animals at Stellar Luxe.