Alex and Alexa.com is an upmarket online baby, toddler and child boutique for 0-5 year olds, which launched in Autumn 07. Designers include Album Di Famiglia, Cacharel, Paul & Joe, Ralph Lauren and Roberto Cavalli. You’ll find the latest collections from their designers beautifully photographed and easy to buy from the well designed site. They offer express international delivery and a same-day service within London.

Little Sunflowers offers a fun, colourful and well priced selection of clothes, accessories and gifts for children and babies featuring brands such as Bob and Blossom, Madfish, Molo and Amplified Kids - so a collection you'll be hard put to find anywhere else.

The site is extremely easy to browse, and whether you're looking for something for one of your own or a gift you're bound to find something here that not only won't break the bank, but that'll be interesting and different as well.

As well as clothes and accessories for girls and boys aged up to 8 (although a few items are for slightly older children) you'll also find rainwear and rain accessories, footwear, sun hats, sunglasses and goggles.

Just about as well known on the High Street as its sister shop Monsoon, Accessorize is the essential destination if you're looking for a stylish fashion gift for an older child or if your early teen and upwards needs (as in I NEED) a new pair of earrings, flip flops, party slip on shoes, scarf or bag. Not only are the prices extremely reasonable but the products are fun and modern. The stores themselves are usually heaving, so take advantage of the fact that you (or they) can now shop online.

Boutique Enfant offers a collection of cashmere knitwear for 6 month old babies to 12 year old children in a rich and vibrant colour selection for the older children and marshmallow colours for the baby range. The emphasis is on traditional designs and you can mix and match from the range of knits as well as buy blankets and toys. If you’re looking for a special present; they offer a high quality gift wrapping service and they’ll ship worldwide. There are exquisite hand smocked girls dresses here as well.

Chateau de Sable is a gorgeous collection of French designed childrenswear going from newborns up to 12 years.

These are perfect clothes for well dressed babies and children and the prices are very reasonable making this a great place for gifts as well as everything can be gift boxed and speedily delivered. I would have loved this site to have been around when my three were tiny.

You may well have read in the press about the Elizabeth Hurley Beach range and here it is online. There's wonderful, sexy, stylish swimwear, chic kaftans, dresses and tops and a choice of knitwear and t-shirts. Then there’s a gorgeous range for kids, which includes pretty swimsuits, hooded dresses and kaftans plus mini beach bags and flip flops.

Kids Cavern is one of the top children's designer stores in the North West of England and their website covers children's wear over three departments from new born-3 years, 4-10 years and 11-16 years. Designers offered include Timberland, Moschino, DKNY, Burberry, Armani, Miniman, Dior and many more and they'll ship worldwide although outside the UK and USA you need to email them to find out how much your postage will cost.

Little Nini is a pretty, colourful boutique offering a unique collection of brands for babies and children up to ten years, including D'Arcy Brown, Lourdes, Mini a Ture, Cri Cri and Pan con Chocolate. There's no fuss here, the site is extremely quick to download, enabling you to get to where you want to be in just a couple of clicks. Shop here for girls, boys, babies and delightful gifts.

With its well known presence on the high street almost everyone has heard of Monsoon; offering attractive, not inexpensive but still good value clothing for everyone with gorgeous ideas for children. The collection goes from babies up to ten years and always includes pretty colours, particularly gorgeous skirts and dresses and the prettiest partywear.

This is a company that was established in London in 1971, aiming to provide fashionable, unique and high quality children’s clothing. They now offer their excellent own brand collections online for children up to age 12/13, and there are some really gorgeous outfits here, particularly for girls, plus designer childrenswear by Moschino, D & G, Armani, Versace and Roberto Cavalli. Do not expect to save money when you visit this website, it’s definitely not cheap.

The next time you're asked where someone could find a really special outfit for your little one, point them in the direction of Rachel Riley, where you’ll discover a truly lovely collection for infants, teens and grown ups as well. Everything there is exquisite with a marvellous attention to style and detail and as you'd expect, nothing is inexpensive. So if you can't afford to kit out your child totally from here, at least you can ask a Godmother or granny to contribute to something really special.

There’s a huge range of labels available here with DKNY, Confetti, Catimini, Jean Bourget, Juicy Couture and Replay as just a small example. The web background is very pink which doesn’t help you to see the clothes but when you click on ‘more details’ for each product you can see them more easily. They also offer a lot of great shoe brands, such as Lelli Kelli, O’Neill and Pom D’Api and they’ll deliver worldwide.

The approach at Their Nibs is to offer a truly distinctive children's clothing collection to fill the gap between the national chains and independent retailers who stock all the usual brands. The collection, which includes lots of prints, is continually updated and inspiration comes from a variety of sources including their own in house, "vintage” collection. There are some really pretty clothes for children aged 0 - 8 including perfect dresses for little flowergirls.

For an excellent range of really well priced, modern, French designed children’s wear and accessories (and babies things as well) look no further. Choose from babywear including organic baby clothes, girls and boyswear at wonderful value and in natural fabrics, good maternity clothing and enchanting partywear for tiny tots. And that’s all just for starters – you have to have a browse here.