Twenty four wipe-clean pages of dinosaur puzzles, with the pen clipped to the cover so it does not go missing on the first day. Join the dots around a pterodactyl's wings, circle what is different between two ichthyosaurs, draw the line from a maiasaura to her babies, then wipe the page and do it again.

Kirsteen Robson builds every activity around pen control, which is the physical skill that has to come before handwriting, and the wipe-clean surface is what makes a child repeat a movement forty times without being asked. Usborne grades it three years and up.

Twenty four pages, 225 by 276 mm, published by Usborne.

Also on the shelf here: Wipe-Clean Airport Activities, twenty four wipe-clean pages of dot to dots, mazes, matching and spot the difference set across one busy airport, with the pen on the cover.