The Easter holidays are upon us, and luckily there’s a plethora of new children’s books to keep them, and us, entertained on trips and rainy days.

Writer and illustrator Nadia Shireen’s Grimwood (Simon & Schuster, £6.99; Tablet price £6.29) is her first for 7+, and my eight-year-old devoured it in one sitting, giggling all the way. It’s the story of two city fox-cub siblings, Ted and Nancy, who run away to the countryside to escape street cat Princess Buttons after an unfortunate incident involving her tail and an imaginary hotdog. It’s a fast-paced, genuinely funny, never preachy, heartwarming read.