Press the page and the woods start up. A wood pigeon coos in the leaf litter, a cuckoo fills the clearing, a woodpecker goes rat a tat tat high in the branches, rain patters down through birch trees and a stream ripples past a drinking fox. Ten real sounds, and every one of them belongs to something a child can find on the page first.

Federica Iossa works in autumn color, all rust and gold and deep green, with cut out holes to peep through and fingertrails to follow, so there is something to do on every spread even between presses. An on and off button preserves the battery. Ten thick board pages that survive being carried around by one corner.

The best thing about it is what happens afterwards. A child who has heard a woodpecker in a book starts listening for one on a walk, and that is a habit worth twenty dollars.