Once again the New York Review of Books Children’s Collection widens our horizons! I’ve enjoyed many of the titles they’ve rescued from the out-of-print cupboard – my favourite so far has been Barbara Sleigh’s Carbonel, which I loved as a child, and read to countless classes through the years!

The latest addition to their dozen or so classic titles is The Curious Lobster, a collection of Richard W. Hatch’s Mr Lobster stories, o...