101 Things to Do Before You're Five

Book excerpt: Is that gurgle the best you can do? With five years of pleasure ahead of you, there are 101 amusing and infuriating things for you to get up to . . . Go ahead . . . · Play your jam sandwich in the DVD machine. · Worship the cardboard box your most expensive present came in. · Stick that pea right up your nose. · Take your place in the middle of your parents' bed. · Drop that tiny car in the massive ball pit and scream until your scrambling parents unearth it. After all, you're only young once. Destined to make new parents laugh and/or cry, Sally Norton's hilarious 101 Things to Do Before You're Five coaches babies through the essential skills to be mastered in those pre-school days, while guiding grown-ups through the 'joys' of those first five crucial years.