This is so much more entertaining than The Cat in the Hat! I must admit at first I was troubled by this pushy little weirdo trying to shove rotten meat down someone else's throat - it must be mould that makes it so green, I thought. Because of this I was predisposed to side-eye it all and give a rating of three stars (even in my humourless state I did like the rhyme scheme, and as a learn-to-read book encompassing only 50 words the book is flat-out genius).

Then came the goat, and I gave in to the madness. I still think Sam-I-Am should not have been rewarded for his nagging ways, but then this is a children's book and I dare say having him beaten to death with his own rotten ham, while satisfying, would not be entirely appropriate.