Christmas stories should be full of joy and warmth and this is a delightful tale. The king buys a bolt of beautiful red cloth to make grand cloak for his princess and the remaining cloth is placed outside the back door. With the offcuts diminishing in size each time, a succession of characters use the cloth to make special gifts for someone close to them, finishing with a little scarf for Billy the mouse. It is a perfectly rounded tale of loving and caring and giving, albeit set in a cold northern hemisphere setting. Recommended for children aged 3 upwards, this is a lovely book to share as a family.

Just Right by Birdie Black and Rosalind Beardshaw (Nosy Crow; ISBN: 978 0 85763 030 8) reviewed by Abbie Jury.