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Janet Ahlberg (21 October 1944 – 13 November 1994), née Janet Hall, and Allan Ahlberg (born 5 June 1938) were a British married couple who created many children's books, including picture books that regularly appear at the top of "most popular" lists for public libraries. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Innovative, funny and moving, his work encompasses storybooks, picture books, easy readers, joke books and novels as well as poems.It's so much fun finding all the cards and gifts in the envelopes (also some of them are hilarious, but that might just be me. Classic characters like Burglar Bill and The Jolly Postman have become firm favourites with a generation of children who are now reading them to their own offspring.

The magical, award-winning story of The Jolly Christmas Postman has been delighting children for generations, making it the perfect book to share on Christmas Eve! Janet sadly died in 1994, but Allan has gone on to work with other illustrators and is still producing lots of new books. The Jolly Christmas Postman is the seasonal sequel of, the Kate Greenaway Medal winning, The Jolly Postman which, after 35 years, remains one of the most innovative and interactive children’s books available. Bought this for my four year old as I thought he was old enough to appreciate it now, and he loves it! The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.Important: Your credit card will NOT be charged when you start your free trial or if you cancel during the trial period. Preschoolers will enjoy the rhyming text and familiar characters and older children can start to read the story and letters themselves. Allan Ahlberg has published over 100 children’s books and with his late wife Janet, created many award-winning children’s picture books, including It Was a Dark and Stormy Night, Funnybones, Each Peach Pear Plum and Peepo! Janet Ahlberg, along with Allan Ahlberg, created some of the world's most popular picture books, including EACH PEACH PEAR PLUM and THE JOLLY CHRISTMAS POSTMAN, both winners of Greenaway Medals, and THE BABY'S CATALOGUE, inspired by their daughter Jessica. It is still the same and I love that it has continued to have the same lovely illustrations as it has done for many years.

It takes quite a while to read the book with a child, so much is left for you to discuss together, to comment on, to remember and love.Our sons loved Alan and Janet Ahlberg books when they were young and we still have an old, much loved Burglar Bill and Cops and Robbers (Ho, ho). Find out what's on Humpty-Dumpty's get-well jigsaw and who has sent Red Riding Hood a board game for Christmas. A special edition of this classic picture book to celebrate its 30th anniversary – with festive foil on the cover! I had this book growing up and bought it for my friend's daughter and these books are one of the best kept secrets.

He has published over 100 children's books and, with his late wife Janet, created such award winning picture books as Each Peach Pear Plum and The Jolly Postman - both winners of the Kate Greenaway Medal. It's so beautifully written with rhymes and little envelopes for you to explore with your child, hopefully it withstands my toddler as It's definitely a book I would like to keep and pass through generations.Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. In the first book of this now classic series, we are taken down the dark, dark street to the dark, dark house and into the dark, dark cellar in which the skeletons live. Got this for christmas at 14 months old he was interested in the pictures and taking stuff out of the envolopes. Many of his books were collaborations with his wife, Janet, an illustrator, and they quickly became one of Britain’s leading author/illustrator teams.