Allan Ahlberg
(1938 - 0)
Allan Ahlberg was born in England in 1938. He was adopted into a family in Oldbury in the West Midlands.
As a child he loved to read. He finished school at age seventeen. After a series of jobs, culminating in grave-digging, he became an elementary school teacher when he was twenty-two.
He met his first wife, the artist Janet Hall at a teacher training college. Their first book, The Brick Street Boys was published in 1975.
Janet and Allan had one daughter, Jessica, who is also an illustrator.
He has written more than 140 books many with other illustrators, including his daugher Jessica.
Bibliography
Funnybones (1980)
The Skeleton family goes out for a walk, but there is no one to scare.
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The Good Old Dolls (1984)
A set of fold-out character cards featuring dolls.
Janet Ahlberg
The Great Marathon Football Match (1976)
The Brick Street boys play a football match that goes on and on and on.
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The Ha Ha Bonk Book (1982)
A large collection of jokes and riddles.
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Happy Worm (1985)
Children's picture book.
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Heard it in the Playground (1989)
Collection of poems for children.
Help! (1985)
Help!, Car + Car, and Make a Castle.
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Here are the Brick Street Boys (1974)
The Brick Street boys just want to play football.
Hip-Hippo Ray (1983)
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Jeremiah in the Dark Woods (1977)
Jeremiah sets out to find what happened to his grandmother’s tarts and meets some familiar nursery characters along the way, as well as a few not so familiar ones.
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The Jolly Postman: Or Other People’s Letters (1986)
As the Jolly Postman goes his rounds, we get to read the letters he delivers to famous storybook characters.
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The Jolly Postman Picture Card Game (1986)
Thirty-six cards with pictures from the Jolly Postman which can be used for a variety of card games, including Snap, Old Maid and Pairs.
King Kangaroo (1983)
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The Little Worm Book (1979)
Here is more amazing information about our friends the worms.
Look Out for the Seals! (1986)
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Make a Face (1985)
This is a children's picture book. It has three sections: Frog, Boy + Boy, and Make a Face.
We count 29 unnumbered pages.
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Master Bun the Baker’s Boy (1980)
His dad is a baker. Even his grandparents were bakers. But Bertie has a big problem – he's bored of bread! He wants to be a butcher's boy, or a bus-driver's boy or even a balloonist's boy – and his wishes are going to land him in lots of trouble.
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Master Money the Millionaire (1981)
Master Money was always finding buried treasure and sharing it with his friends.
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Master Salt the Sailor’s Son (1980)
When the Salt family sails to Coconut Island, they decide to leave Sammy Salt behind because he is too little.
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Me and My Friend (1986)
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