Each Peach Pear Plum - Allan Ahlberg Reviews

'Each peach, pear, plum, I spy Tom Thumb...' So starts Each Peach Pear Plum, a lovely rhyming kid's picture books with the most beautifully detailed pictures. Each page has a new character that must be found - first Tom Thumb, then other fairytale characters like the three bears, Cinderella or Baby Bunting. Think of it as a very small ...

This is a really fun book by Janet and Allan Ahlberg that works well on a number of levels! Essentially it draws on children's knowledge of lots of different nursery rhymes and fairy tales, bringing the characters together to tell the story of these people meeting with each other basically to have a picnic. Children don't necessarily need to know ...

I couldn't believe that this was written in 1978...........I'm getting old!! It is a fabulous book for young children which has certainly stood the test of time. ******************************************** The content and style. ******************************************** It is essentially an 'I spy' book and indeed on ...

This has to be a modern day classic for young children. **THE STORY** ”In this little book With your little eye Take a look And play ‘I spy’” So begins the book, and as you read it, it becomes apparent that it is an “I spy” book, allowing the children to search for familiar nursery rhyme and fairy ...

Each peach pear plum is a peachy book written by Alan Alhberg with his wife Janet doing the illustrations published in1989 by puffin books and later edition by Viking books. This is an eye spy book it has 32 pages the price is £4.99 but it can be bought cheaper (I am keeping a watch out for it in he charity shop) It is available as a ...

'Each Peach Pear Plum' is an excelent book for little people and youc an buy it either as a paper book or a board book. It's been around for ages - I remember it from when I was a kid, and I loved it to much that I learned it by heart! The premise is simple yet clever, and follows a pattern, which seems to help little people ...

Each, Peach, Pear Plum is one of the most unusual books for children that I have come across. But that's to be expected from this fairly well known author of childrens books, Allan Ahlberg and Janet Ahlberg. Husband and wife, meeting at the same course Sunderland to train as teachers, both went on to be a brilliant authors for childrens ...

Beautifully illustrated, this board book has a lovely rhyming text and 'I spy' theme on each page. It is based around nursery rhyme and folktale characters. On each page a new character is hidden, to appear as the main character on the next. There is also a 'story' - Baby Bunting has to be rescued from the river (by the ...