Book of the Week

She'll be coming round the mountain (Toot toot!) by Jonathan Emmett.

The book that stopped me in my tracks this week is a children's picture book.

I'm susceptible to them, too, but this one is rather unlikely. I defy any grandparent to resist singing along with She'll be coming round the mountain (Toot, toot) by Jonathan Emmett. Gloriously, racily illustrated, with irresistible sound effects, it should be on every grandparent's bottom shelf. Except it will be off the shelf as often as it's on.

30 January 2007