n Lady Lupin's Book of Etiquette by Babette Cole (Puffin, £4.99)

Yet another delightful and amusing children's book from Babette Cole, whose detailed illustrations give plenty of interest, time and time again.

This story will ring a bell with any child who has been told to keep their mouths closed while they eat, be polite and open doors for people.

Lady Lupin is an aristocrat, deerhound and mother to a dishevelled pack of little deerhounds.

Now they are growing up, she says, it's time to instil a little etiquette into their lives!

Fur is flying as we see them squabbling over a plate of bones . . . but now they are instructed to ask for the bones to be passed in a proper bowl.

The before and after illustrations of each lesson, including trying to eat an ice cream through a veiled hat, or whipping away a chair from under a visitor who is about to sit down, are full of amusing subtleties which will appeal to any child of four or five upwards.

Jackie Harris