The holes are what make this series work. A child peeks through a cut in the page and catches a glimpse of what is on the other side before they get there, so the book keeps making small promises and then keeping them. Lift a flap and the burrow opens up, cross section style, with everyone at home.

Nests, warrens, hives, dens and dams. Anna Milbourne keeps the facts short and pitched exactly where a three year old lives, which is the hardest thing to get right in non fiction this young and the reason the Peek Inside series has been an Usborne bestseller for years.

Fourteen thick pages built to survive the repeat lifting these spreads invite. It is a real introduction to how animals live, delivered as a game of looking rather than as a lesson, and it is a dependable answer for the child who has started asking where things sleep.