Pete has been cast in the school Thanksgiving play, and even the coolest cat in the room turns out to get stage fright. The whole story runs on a joke a four year old already understands perfectly: the show goes on whether you are ready for it or not.

More than ten flaps are cut into the sixteen pages, and every one holds back a small reveal, so this is a book read with hands as much as with eyes. That is what turns a five minute story into a twenty minute one, because a child who has already lifted a flap will go back and lift it again to check that the surprise is still under there.

Eight inches square and light enough to travel, written by James Dean and Kimberly Dean with the flat bright artwork James Dean has drawn for Pete since the beginning. Published by HarperCollins and graded for ages 4 to 8.