Everybody already sings the song. This is the book version of the feeling behind it: short rhyming lines about what a child means to a parent, one spread at a time, with no plot to get in the way of the sentiment.

Cut outs and raised pieces run through the whole book, so reading it is hands on rather than passive. Very young children explore a page with their fingers long before they follow it with their eyes, and this series is designed around that fact, which is why it holds attention where flat picture books lose it.

Illustrated by Natalie Marshall and written by Nicola Edwards, it is one of the year round titles in Silver Dolphin's You're My Little series rather than a holiday one, so it does not go back in a box in January. 18 board pages, seven and a half inches square, publisher guidance 0 to 2 years, and a safe answer to any new baby in your life.