Next week, millions of children across the globe will read this Australian book at the same time | Children and teenagers

“They lose the cat, they find the cat again, they fall in love and then they get a baby.” This is how Clementine, four-and-a-half, summarises The Truck Cat, a picture book by children’s author Deborah Frenkel and illustrator Danny Snell.

On Wednesday 21 May at noon, more than one million…