There are some excellent washable (yes really) sheepskin boots with heavy soles here for kids in colours such as peony, turquoise and lilac (as well as the more standard colours). You can also buy cute booties, Aqualamb weatherproof boots, Mongolian boots with outrageously fluffy and colourful yet style tops and luxurious Toscana shearling cuffed boots. Don’t let them look; they’ll probably want them all.

The shoes here go from babies up to four years and from adorable pale blue or pink Bill Amberg sheepskin boots to fleecy slippers and soft personalised shoes. The main part of the range is for tinies and there’s a great deal of choice, with rather less in the up to four range. They offer gift boxing on all their shoes so this would also be a very good place for baby gifts.

Inch Blue boots are designed for comfort and growing space and as they’re made exclusively from natural leather they’ll let your baby’s feet breathe, and with soft suede soles they won’t slip. They’re not just for babies; Inch Blue make boots for toddlers and children aged up to 4 years as well. Their best selling designs include paws, frogs, delightful ballet shoes and oriental birds. They also have a collection called Rosie and Romeo, of gorgeous babygros, bibs and changing mats plus attractive gift sets.

Waterproofs, wellies, thermal socks and booties, hats, gloves, brollies for tinies, ski wear and even a wellie peg is to be found on this innovative and clever site aimed at children up to five with a very few items going up to eight (such as ski tops). This is an absolutely essential website for just about anyone with young children so take a good look round, as you could easily give some of the flowered wellies, funny socks and bootees as gifts.

It’s just as well that Ollipops has a red ‘Start Here’ sign on their home page as there’s so much there it would be hard to know where to go otherwise. So. Click on to The Shop and then go through to the range of shoes, by Starchild, Bobux, Sole Mania or Aquashoe. Most of the shoes are for tinies, but Aquashoe go from infants to adults, so you can pick up a pair for yourself as well.

Rockpoolkids offer deck shoes made from quality nubuck and full grain leather, lined with pigskin and with a stitched and glued non-slip rubber sole. There are three styles; one with a velcro strap in sizes 24 to 32, a classic lace up in sizes 33 to 40 and a navy deck shoe with velcro fastening from size 24-40. All shoes are made in a medium width fitting and are unisex, although some boys might object to the pink! There’s also a small, well priced and sporty range of clothing.

Yes this really is a slipper store, where everything is very reasonably priced and there’s a good range for kids. You know that moment when slippers have been the last thing you’re thinking of and your little one says ‘I have no slippers, we need to go out and get some (usually at your busiest moment), well this store solves that problem straight away – there are loads of styles in a wide range of sizes for everyone.

The Baby Shoe Shop (which is part of website ‘Kidsbits’) specialises in retailing soft shoes for babies and toddlers, from quality manufacturers such as Daisy Roots, Shoo Shoo, Pitter Patter, Inch Blue and Star Child. They also sell rubber wellies from Aigle and neoprene beach shoes from the wet suit factory. There are unbelievably cute ballet pumps with satin ribbons up to 24 months, a gorgeous choice of little soft shoes (some humorous, some just pretty) for boys and girls and kids’ wet suit shoes for running in and out of the water.

Scandinavian brand Vincent Shoe Store offers practical and fun designs for infants, toddlers, pre-schoolers and children up to shoe size 35 (UK Size 3). I’m sure you won’t be surprised to learn that top of the list here are kids snow boots (in season) which are available in lots of different colours plus ‘frog’ wellies with clever pull on handles. The range covers everything from sports shoes to party shoes so it’s well worth a look.