One level up from Dr Seuss’s ABC, this is a simple toddler book full of first words and is, once again, packed with trademark silliness and daft illustrations.

This book is entirely plotless and intended as nothing more than a fun way to encourage little ones to enunciate words.

As such it is quickly memorised and Thing One would start to shout “No Pat, No!” as soon as we turned the page in which Pat is about to sit on the cactus plant.

The only unsolved mystery is what caused dad to have such a bad day?