Bags, beds and blankets to keep everyone happy this holiday. Travel with small children is travel distilled to its most elemental version. You pack less but need more from what you bring for those planes, trains and automobiles. The indispensable things tend to share the same qualities: great design, durability and value for everyday use – from airport essentials to clever ways to keep them entertained. Below, the clobber that makes the cut.

Read Fergus Scholes’s full article in the Financial Times.