Sharp eyes are required! A new range of fantastic 'spotter' books has just been released by QED Publishing, with various fun themes and tons of amazing facts packed between the pages.

The "Spot the" range kicks off with "Spot the Mummy at the Museum" - A cheeky Mummy hides in every scene so it's up to you to find him as he enjoys all the exhibits and scenes spanning world history.

As well as the Mummy, you'll need to find a whole brace of other interesting objects and artifacts - all while enjoying the historical facts and figures that describe each period of history in more fun detail.

"Spot the Mummy at the Museum" is out now, written by Sarah Khan and illustrated by Joelle Driedemy.

We also took a look at "Spot the Bird at the Building Site", again a really fun book showing all the different stages of building everything from a library to a high-rise skyscraper. This time you're on the look-out for a cheeky pigeon who hides out in each scene, and once again there are loads of interesting facts about buildings and architecture to read. Did you know that the lifts in the Shard move so quickly that you can get to the top of the building in just over a minute! Stomach-churning stuff!

"Spot the Bird on the Building Site" also by Sarah and Joelle is also out now.

QED have more in the range so if you're on the look-out for a fun and challenging set of books to keep your little one occupied over the summer, take a look at the rest of the "Spot the" range as they're really brilliantly presented, full of colourful and fun illustrations and well worth closer investigation!

Find out more about QED's awesome range on the Quarto Knows website.

Oh the fun we had with this book! Every child (and probably every parent) knows that if you insist on making silly faces ("Gurning" as we weird UK folk like to call it), one day the wind will change and you'll stay like it.

This is the sage advice that one Tilly Turner ignores when her mum tells her to stop being daft and contorting her face into ridiculous gargoyle-esque shapes. Her teacher also warns her against her facial gymnastics, as do her friends. One fateful day young Tilly is gurning fit to bust when the weathercock slowly spins, the wind changes direction and lo and behold, she's trapped behind the face of a hag. Her beautiful features corkscrew into a foetid beastly scramble of hideousness. What on earth is Tilly to do?

I grew up loving a comic strip in Buster Comic (remember that?) called Faceache. A kid had a superpower of being able to mould his face into hideous grotesque visages. Drawn by the absolute master of horror fun comics, Ken Reid, this story really reminded me of the sort of crazed expressions the boy in that story could produce.

You'll have to read "Tilly Turner" yourself to find out if she ever got her beautiful face back. A fun and fantastic book that is surely due a reprint?

Charlotte's best bit: Tilly's first day at school when she realises she can't change back! Owch!

Daddy's Favourite bit: We had a lot of fun reading this, and of course gurning ourselves (though we made sure we checked the wind direction before each gurn!)

Crocodiles are always superbly effective "villains" in children's books and the croc in "Click Clack, Crocodile's Back" is no exception. He's a bully, he's sneaky, he's sly and most animals are at the top of his menu every day.

The animals soon tire of his antics and decide that the only way to sort Croc out is to work together, and prove that even the nastiest bullies can be dealt with without resorting to their tactics.

In Kathryn White's book, humorous rhyming text is used in conjunction with Joelle Dreidemy's marvellous animal illustrations to convey a fairly serious underlying message, that there are far better ways to deal with nasty folk than playing them at their own game. I really like the fact that using brains rather than brawn, the animals come up with the perfect way to divert Crocodile from his snapping and sneaky subversion.

We've seen the theme many times before (as I said, Crocodiles make such effective bad guys and there are so many books that use them in a similar way - take "The Selfish Crocodile" by Faustin Charles or Kathryn White's other croc-based book "Here comes the Crocodile" as further examples). Here though I think we rather admired the fact that the real stars of the stories are the other animals.

It may not be intended as an anti-bullying message but it most certainly feels like one, wrapped subtly in an entertaining and funny rhyming story.

Charlotte's best bit: Crocodile's natty dress he's unintentionally tricked into wearing

Daddy's favourite bit: Superb book, really entertaining and with a quite subtle message on how to deal with disagreeable folk (or crocs). Love it!