Pat Hutchins is best known for her picturebook Rosie’s Walk, where the images tell a separate story to the text. Here she avoids text altogether.

In this book a series of colourful illustrations shows two wooden dolls making things from a pile of children’s building blocks, starting with a house then moving on – with very good reason – to a fire engine and then to a boat.

The story is surprisingly dramatic and the charming pictures may inspire you to build your own colourful building-block creations.