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Allan Ahlberg

Allan Ahlberg, a former teacher, postman, plumber's mate and grave digger, is in the super-league of children's writers. 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. He has also written prize-winning poetry and fiction and lives in Sussex.

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  • The Man Who Wore All His Clothes

    The Man Who Wore All His Clothes

    Author: Allan Ahlberg Illustrator: Katherine McEwan
    Publisher: Walker Books

    Mr Gaskitt works as Father Christmas in a department store, his wife is a taxi driver and Horace, their cat, loves spending much of his time watching sad old movies on TV.

  • The Runaway Dinner

    The Runaway Dinner

    Author: Allan Ahlberg Illustrator: Bruce Ingman
    Publisher: Walker Books

    Banjo sits down to eat his dinner of sausage, vegetables and fries, but before he can begin, his dinner runs away, along with the knife, fork, plate and his table and chair.

  • The Boyhood of Burglar Bill

    The Boyhood of Burglar Bill

    Author: Allan Ahlberg
    Publisher: Penguin

    It is 1953, and in Oldbury Town there is to be a football competition. Rood End Primary enters its two best teams, but there are a few others who want to make their mark too.

  • Mr Biff the Boxer

    Mr Biff the Boxer

    Author: Allan Ahlberg Illustrator: Janet Ahlberg
    Publisher: Puffin

    The Ahlbergs' funny and classic Happy Families story is now available in a larger format and is ideal for newly independent readers

  • The Pencil

    The Pencil

    Author: Allan Ahlberg Illustrator: Bruce Ingman
    Publisher: Walker Books

    In this metafictional tale, a pencil discovers its creative powers, at first tentatively drawing a boy, then more confidently providing him with what he asks for; a dog, then a cat.

  • Friendly Matches

    Friendly Matches

    Author: Allan Ahlberg Illustrator: Fritz Wegner
    Publisher: Penguin

    Friendly Matches is an entertaining, and at times thought-provoking, collection of poetry about football.

  • The Children who Smelled a Rat

    The Children who Smelled a Rat

    Author: Allan Ahlberg Illustrator: Katharine McEwen
    Publisher: Walker Books

    Ahlberg and McEwen's fourth fast, funny and improbable story about the Gaskitt family is as ingenious as its predecessors.

  • Starting School

    Starting School

    Author: Allan Ahlberg and Janet Ahlberg
    Publisher: Penguin

    Starting School by Janet and Allan Ahlberg is an enchanting picture book for reassuring children who are about to start school for the very first time.

  • The Jolly Christmas Postman

    The Jolly Christmas Postman

    Author: Allan Ahlberg Illustrator: Janet Ahlberg
    Publisher: Puffin

    Follow our favourite jolly postman as he delivers Christmas cards and gifts to fairytale folk

  • Funnybones

    Funnybones

    Author: Allan & Janet Ahlberg
    Publisher: Penguin

    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.

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