'Eye-grabbing design gives this house-shaped board book some irresistible shelf appeal and it'd make an impressive gift (if a little challenging to wrap!) for the same reasons.

The concertina book folds out to make a street of shops, busy with animals of all sorts going about their shopping. The shop names make up the alphabet from Alfie's Bakery to Uptown Vacuums, Wonder X-Rays and Yackety Zack's (a beauty parlour). Each shop also has lift-up flaps to reveal lovely interior illustrations and a single line of text emphasising the letter: 'Y is for Yaks, who are yawning in chairs' and 'Z is for Zebra, who's zooming upstairs!'

When the book is folded out, it can be flipped over for a bustling park scene, which could be used as a lovely backdrop for other play. A clever concept, beautifully executed by Nosy Crow books; a single package that is a book, a fold-out play-scene and a beautiful frieze.'

There's so much to discover in this ingenious little book! Read the story, lift the flaps, enjoy the funny rhyming text, learn the letters of the alphabet and, then, when you're finished, flip the book and have fun with the playscene on the reverse!