Every plane in this one is wrong in a way a fingertip can settle. The wings on the cover are ridged and cool, the propeller engines are lumpy, the airliner tail is glossy, and the wheels are squashy enough that a baby will keep going back to them. Five aircraft, five verdicts, one correct plane at the end.

Fiona Watt runs the same sentence on every spread and changes a single word, so the reading turns into a call and response before a child has any words of their own. Rachel Wells draws each aircraft head on or side on against a clean sky, big and flat and hard edged, which is the kind of image a very young eye can lock onto. The white mouse arrives by parachute on one page and rides the tailfin on another.

Ten board pages, square, and Usborne grades it from three months. It is the aviation shelf of a series that families collect one vehicle at a time, and for a toddler who wants wheels on the ground instead, Little Blue Truck: Feeling Happy is the touch and feel we carry.