Ollie The Otter is our illustrated picture-book series for the very first years — four gentle stories that follow one small otter from his first days to his first birthday. They were written to be read aloud at bedtime, in the ten quiet minutes before sleep, with short sentences a toddler can follow and pictures worth stopping on.

The four stories

• The Gentle Beginning — Ollie's first days, and the small world of a newborn.
• Finds His Paws — learning to move, and the wobbling that comes first.
• The Great Adventure — the first time the world gets bigger than home.
• Turns One — a first birthday, and a year of milestones looked back on.

How they work

Each book is a digital download, so it arrives in seconds and reads on a phone, tablet or laptop — useful at a grandparent's house, on a plane, or when the paper copy is downstairs and the baby is not. The series is also available on Amazon if you would rather read it there.

Why an otter

Ollie is the same otter on our labels. The books and the clothes come from the same place: an attempt to make the ordinary parts of very early childhood — getting dressed, going to sleep, growing out of things — feel a little warmer. If you came here from the clothing, the organic cotton range is sized 0-5 years, made from organic cotton, with non-toxic dyes and no itchy labels.