A wolf howls on a bare mountaintop. A macaw screams somewhere deep in the jungle. Meerkats chatter in the desert while a camel snorts in the shade, and under the northern lights a walrus gurgles on the ice. Ten real recordings, ten of the wildest places on earth, and a toddler who will find every one of them before the afternoon is out.

Federica Iossa paints each habitat as somewhere worth staying on rather than a background to a button. There are cut out holes to look through and fingertrails to run a finger along, so the pages keep giving after the sounds have stopped being a surprise, and an on and off switch preserves the battery, which is the detail a parent appreciates on about day three.

Ten thick board pages from Usborne's best selling sound book series. It is the safari, the arctic and the rainforest, delivered to a rug on a wet afternoon.