Since 1998, I have convened an annual core curriculum lecture course in paediatric orthopaedics at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. Over the years, we have frequently been asked to recommend books that succinctly cover all of the necessary information and I now believe that we have found such a book in Postgraduate Paediatric Orthopaedics: The Candidate's Guide to the FRCS (Tr & Orth) Examination. As the title suggests, the text is targeted toward trainees sitting the FRCS (Tr & Orth) examination but the book would also be useful for those who seek to enhance or maintain their paediatric orthopaedic knowledge base, including practicing orthopaedic surgeons, GPs, paediatricians and specialist physiotherapists. The text is much more than lecture notes and covers all of the major subjects with sufficient information to keep the reader interested, while still delivering the required facts to an examination candidate as quickly as possible. I congratulate the editors and the authors for producing such as useful text.