Does it matter how you look? Wishing Bird thinks it does and every time she sees another animal she changes her colour to match. But nothing really suits her as much as her original feathers, and her friends like her best that way. Makes a point, but David Wojtowycz's bright illustrations were better married to the lively poems of Giles Andreae in books such as Rumble In The Jungle (Orchard, £4.99)

Updated: 09:26 Wednesday, July 16, 2003