Even when my son was very small I used to share books with him because I want him to grow up with a love of reading. When I was younger I loved to read but as I got older it wasn't something I really did anymore because it wasn't encouraged at home. As an adult I now read regularly again and my son has a real love of books too and as such has a great collection of books that he has been bought over the years. The book I am going to review today is The Jolly Postman. The book that we have is a hard back book which I think I purchased through the book people when I worked in a school and we would regularly have a rep come by and leave a selection of books for ...  Read the complete review

Review of The Jolly Postman (Or 'Other People's Letters) by Janet and Alan Ahlberg. This is a hard backed board book aimed at children aged 2-6 years of age. Published by Puffin, containing 48 pages, ISBN 978-0670886241. Cover price £12.99. Currently available on amazon for £9.09 new or from £4.09 used, however, I would be dubious about buying this book used unless I could examine it first, for fear of the contents being missing. ==The Book== The Jolly Postman is a beautifully illustrated, rhymed story book for children, with a difference. The difference is that on each pair of pages is a highly coloured illustration ...  Read the complete review

The Jolly Postman is a children's book written in 1986 by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. The Ahlberg's have written many super children's books including 'Each, Peach, Pear Plum' and 'Funny Bones'. I have always enjoyed their book's, both for reading to a class and to my own children. The Jolly Postman is an interactive book. All children between the ages of four and ten will love it. The story is written in a rhyming format, which is very popular with youngsters today, as they can finish the rhyme or chant it with you. The book features the main character, the Jolly Postman, and then many nursery characters, which the young reader can associate with, like the Three ...  Read the complete review

This was a present for my daughter's second birthday and it's something I had never seen before (despite it being a children's classic), so I was very intrigued when I opened it up. What an exciting book! It's a truly lovely book, and is basically a story of a jolly postman delivering letters to various fairytale characters. The version we have has a hardback glossy cover with lovely illustrations of the fairytale characters, but the thing that makes it wonderful is that every other page is an envelope with a letter or some other item of post inside, what a great idea! The pages are really good quality with just 4 or 5 lines of large text on each so the ...  Read the complete review

My daughter absolutely adores this book and after you have looked at it you will definately see why. The Jolly Postman or Other People's Letters was written by Janet and Allan Alberg and first published in 1986. It has stood the test of time and is still around today. I loved this book as a child and was happy to pass my copy onto my daughter. The story follows the Jolly Postmas as he delivers letters to well known characters from popular fairy tales. These include a letter to the 3 bears form Golilocks to apologise for breaking baby bears chair and eating the porridge, a letter for the wicked witch from a mail order company asking if she would ...  Read the complete review