I created Special Delivery a couple of years ago. It was an idea that I just had to get out of my head. It looks like a picture book and reads like a picture book, but it’s really for the parents!

Buy the book from Amazon UK   –   Amazon USA   –   Amazon Canada

I think it’s a perfect gift book for new families, who have just got over the trauma of childbirth and have brought their little bundle of joy home with them.

Wouldn’t it be so much easier to order the perfect baby online and have it delivered, with all the odds and ends that it needs, a mere nine months later? Plenty of time to prepare and get the nursery ready.

But these modern babies come with old-world problems. So good to know the helpful helpline lady is always ready and available.

And, as with any online order, there can be confusion. Did you tick all the right boxes? Did you read the small print?

If you know a new family with a sense of humour, this is the perfect gift for them.

Alternately, if you are being nagged about where babies come from – this story might fob them off for a couple of years!

“Perfect gift for a brand new family…”