By John Hegley and Neal Layton, Hodder Children's Books, hardback, 10.99

Stanley’s stick is not just a stick. It’s a banana, a dinosaur, a broomstick, a fishing rod…Then one day at the seaside, he throws his stick in the water and watches as the waves suck it out to sea. He returns next day to find another stick in the sand, this time a wiggly one that makes a great saxophone, a telescope…