This is a collection of twenty-five stories for the very young by a number of well-known authors. Songs and sounds and rhymes and stories, clothes and colours, numbers and animals, this book is full of the things which should appeal to young children. Included in this book are stories written and/or illustrated by Martha Alexander, Catherine and Laurence Anholt, Anthony Browne, John Burningham, Nick Butterworth, Patricia Casey, Lucy Cousins, Michael Foreman, Sally Grindley, Colin and Jacqui Hawkins, Kathy Henderson, Shirley Hughes, Julie Lacome, Amy MacDonald, Flora McDonnell, Virginia Miller, Jan Ormerod, Helen Oxenbury, Maureen Roffey, Clive Scruton, Nick Sharratt, Carol Thompson, Charlotte Voake, Clara Vulliamy and Liz Wood.