Books are great prompts to get talking to your toddler about all sorts of things they wouldn't necessarily come across in everyday life. You don't have to read them word for word - see what ...

The Girl with the Secret Name by Yael Zoldan (Green Bean Books, £12.99), with its tapestried backdrop of 16th-century Europe, has the historical and emotional heft of Maggie O’Farrell’s The ...