One of the many great things about having a tiny sidekick is the pleasure of putting together a library for her. I’ve found some excellent vintage children’s books recently, and this is one of my favourites. I got it in a bookshop in Hay-on-Wye, which is like a town from a fairy tale (twenty-seven bookshops!).

It’s a lovely annual from the year I was born, showcasing the work of various Puffin writers and illustrators. There’s stuff from Quentin Blake, Roald Dahl, Raymond Briggs and Tove Jansson; a Professor Branestawm story (I used to love Professor Branestawm); and the obligatory story on a member of the Royal Family – this time the hunky dreamboat Prince Charles. I wonder if kids annuals still do this? When I was growing up, we had a box of annuals from the Fifties and Sixties that belonged to my mother, and at one stage there was a Princess Margaret Annual in the collection. I would love to get my hands on that now.