One of David McNeill’s many cartoons for The Really Really Busy Person’s Book on Parenting, by Rob Parsons and Katharine Hill, the founder and UK Director of the charity Care for the Family (Muddy Pearl, £7.50 (£6.75); 978-1-910012-28-4), which offers reassurance about the impossibility of being a perfect parent, and advice on being a good one, and ends with a prayer