If you go down in the woods today, you had better go in disguise. Almost every adult in the room already knows the tune, which is the quiet superpower of this book: you do not read it so much as sing it, and a two year old will have the chorus inside a week.

Alexandra Day, who drew Good Dog, Carl, turns Jimmy Kennedy's lyrics into an actual story rather than a set of decorated verses, and the bears she paints are warm, slightly mischievous and worth staring at. Little Simon has put it into the Classic Board Book format, 34 thick pages sized for hands that grab before they turn.

Publisher guidance is ages two to five. In practice it lands at the exact moment a toddler starts wanting the same book every single night, and it is a much better fate than most of the alternatives.