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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
Circus: A Foldaway Book (1984)
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Author(s):
Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s):
Colin McNaughton
The Clothes Horse and Other Stories (1987)
What if there really were a horse made out of clothes? or a Night Train that brought the night?
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Author(s):
Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s):
Janet Ahlberg
Clowning About (1984)
A fold-out ‘Daisychain’ of clowns with humorous verses.
Author(s):
Allan Ahlberg
Janet Ahlberg
Illustrator(s):
André Amstutz
The Collected Poems (2008)
Poems that really are poetry.
Author(s):
Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s):
Charlotte Voake
Cops and Robbers (1978)
It is Christmas Eve and the robbers of London set out to steal as many toys as they can, but Officer Pugh is on the job.
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Author(s):
Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s):
Janet Ahlberg
Dinosaur Dreams (1991)
Three skeletons enter each other's dreams about dinosaurs.
The book has 26 unnumbered pages.
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Author(s):
Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s):
André Amstutz
Doll and Teddy (1998)
Pictures illustrate a baby’s world.
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Author(s):
Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s):
Janet Ahlberg
Double Ducks (1982)
Five little ducks comes home with friends. Now there are double the number of ducks!
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Author(s):
Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s):
Eric Hill
Each Peach Pear Plum (1978)
A game of I Spy with favorite nursery characters.
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Author(s):
Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s):
Janet Ahlberg
Everybody was a Baby Once; and Other Poems (2010)
Illustrated poems present a unique cast of babies and witches, sausages and robbers, and a few favorite nursery-rhyme characters.
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Author(s):
Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s):
Bruce Ingman
Fast Fox Goes Crazy (1999)
Author(s):
Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s):
André Amstutz
Fast Frog (1982)
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Author(s):
Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s):
Eric Hill
Fee Fi Fo Fum (1985)
Children's picture book.
Author(s):
Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s):
Colin McNaughton
Foldaway Families (1984)
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Author(s):
Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s):
Colin McNaughton
Fred’s Dream (1976)
Fred dreams of many things instead of paying attention in class.
Author(s):
Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s):
Janet Ahlberg
Friendly Matches (2001)
This is a collection of football poems covering a range of different aspects of the game. For example, referees, team talk, the 1966 World Cup, all written in different verse forms.
Author(s):
Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s):
Fritz Wenger
Funnybones (1980)
The Skeleton family goes out for a walk, but there is no one to scare.
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Author(s):
Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s):
Janet Ahlberg
The Ghost Train (1992)
Three skeletons have fun when they take a train ride one dark, dark night--until something scares them.
We count 31 unnumbered pages.
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Author(s):
Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s):
André Amstutz
The Giant Baby (1994)
A story about a famous doctor, a criminal trial, a kidnapping, a gang of desperate men, a little girl who wanted a brother and an enormous baby.
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Author(s):
Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s):
Fritz Wenger
Give the Dog a Bone (1993)
The dog skeleton dreams of a bone. Suddenly, he chases a cat and loses a bone. Then he chases some ducks and loses another.
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Author(s):
Allan Ahlberg
Illustrator(s):
André Amstutz