Spring is the season a small child can actually watch happening, and this book gives them somewhere to look. Peek under the blossom, behind the meadow flowers, down into the pond. Nests full of chicks. Baby rabbits. Tadpoles wriggling where there was nothing a week ago.

Anna Milbourne builds each spread around one discovery and then hides it behind a flap or a cut-through hole, so the child does the finding rather than being shown. That small act of uncovering is what makes the fact stick, and it is why the Peek Inside books get read to pieces rather than shelved.

Read it in March and it stops being a book and starts being a checklist for the walk to the park. Fourteen thick pages, flaps built for repeat lifting, and a season that rewards going back to the same page a fortnight later to see what has changed outside.