The Ghost Train - Allan Ahlberg

Each Peach Pear Plum - Allan Ahlberg

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 board book and as a paperback Each peach pear plum has a rhythm to the words it is poetical. And it has won a Kate greenway medal. Alan says in an interview it took him a day to write and 6 months for Janet to illustrate This book is suitable for children between 3 and 7 or 8. On one page there is a little poem on the ...

Each Peach Pear Plum - Allan Ahlberg

'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 cope with following it. On the first page we meet Tom Thumb, on the next we see him doing something and are introduced to a new nursery rhyme character who is hiding in the background, and then we see them doing something and there's yet another new person and on it goes. Each new character is hiding somewhere in the illustration and you can ...

Jolly Postman or Other Peoples Letters - Allen Ahlberg

This is the original in the series of Jolly Postman books. It is based on favourite nursery and childhood story characters. You travel with the postman as he delivers letters. The actual letters are included in the book – he has a letter of apology for the three bears from Goldilocks, a postcard from Jack to the giant, a ...