Would you rather be crushed by a snake, eaten by a crocodile or sat on by a rhinoceros? And would you rather have supper in a castle, breakfast in a balloon or tea on the river?

These tricky questions are posed in my favourite book for three to six-year-olds, Would you Rather? by John Burningham. In each case, I find one needs to deliberate quite hard to discover which is the least nasty of the three nasty things or the nicest of the three nice ones.