John Nickle: TV Rex

Scholastic

$34.95

From the author of The Ant Bully comes a rambling (in a good way), salutary tale about the pleasures and perils of television. Rex is missing his grandfather, who not only used to teach him how to make and fix things, but who used to be his TV companion.

Together the pair would snuggle up and watch one hour of TV every day. But with Grandpa gone, Rex is bored and unhappy until he crawls inside an old TV set for comfort and channel surfs his way into one adventure after another. But how will he get back to the other side of the screen? Nickle specialises in tough-ish, contemporary, urban characters, and most little boys up to the age of 7 will think TV Rex is cool and comforting.

The pictures, which include retro styles and bold colours, are great, too.