Polly's Running Away Book is an absolute delight, and tunes in to those niggly childhood dilemmas that are certainly familiar to children everywhere. But the real joy of this book (apart from the fact that it is very, very pink and girlie) is that adults will love it too, and will probably find it quite hard to let go once as they are swept along by the nostalgia of what it means to be a small child. (Age 5 to 9) --Susan Harrison