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The Jolly Christmas Postman

by Allan Ahlberg, illustrated by Janet Ahlberg

Interest age: 5+
Reading age: 6+

Published by Puffin, 2011

  • Classics
  • Picture books

About this book

In this follow-up to the Ahlbergs' classic The Jolly Postman or Other People's Letters, we follow our happy postman on his Christmas rounds in a fairytale town. Children will love exploring the illustrated details and seeing what's in all the envelopes.

Find out what's on Humpty-Dumpty's get-well jigsaw and who has sent Red Riding Hood a board game for Christmas. Preschoolers will enjoy the rhyming text and familiar characters and older children can start to read the story and letters themselves. An old favourite that will be pulled out every Christmas and probably throughout the year.

About the author

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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