Bedtime is a routine before it is a story, and this is a book built to be the routine. Gentle bear art and short cosy rhymes carry a child down from the day, and thick pages with playful cut outs give tiny fingers something to do while the settling happens.

Silver Dolphin sizes it deliberately for small hands, so it works from the first months as something to look at and keeps working at two and three as something to be read aloud and joined in with. Families who wore out Goodnight Moon tend to reach for this next.

It is the bear in Silver Dolphin's You're My Little series, illustrated by Natalie Marshall and written by Nicola Edwards, 18 board pages at seven and a half inches square. Publisher guidance is 0 to 2 years. As a gift it does the quiet thing good baby presents do: it becomes part of somebody's evening for years.