Products by Allan Ahlberg

Introduces characters from traditional stories, such as the Three Bears , Mother Hubbard and Tom Thumb . This board book encourages children to participate and to find the characters hidden in the pictures. With its rhyme and rhythm, it is suitable for reading aloud to very young children.

This work follows a baby through the day. A series of holes peeping through to the next page leads the young child on to the next stage of the day, giving a hint of what is to come.

It's Christmas Eve and the Jolly Postman is delivering greetings to various fairy-tale characters - there's a card for Baby Bear, a game appropriately called 'Beware' for Red Riding Hood from Mr Wolf, a get-well jigsaw for hospitalized Humpty Dumpty and three more surprise envelopes containing letters, and cards.

The Jolly Postman delivers cards and letters to various fairy-tale characters. He has a letter of apology for the three bears from Goldilocks, a postcard from Jack for the giant, a solicitor's letter on behalf of Little Red Riding-Hood for the wolf who ate grandma, and so on.

Presents a poem on each spread that gives the clue as to what is hiding in the picture opposite. This book includes many well-known nursery characters so that young children can follow the rhymes and enjoy the story.

A big skeleton, a little skeleton and a dog skeleton live in the dark cellar of a dark house on a dark hill. The skeletons venture out of their cellar one night to find someone to scare, but everyone is in bed so they amuse themselves by scaring each other and playing with the skeleton animals that live in the zoo.

Everything in Burglar Bill's life is stolen, from the toast, marmalade and coffee he has for breakfast to the bed he sleeps in. One night when he is out burgling, he comes across a box with holes in the lid on a doorstep. He picks it up of course and when he gets home he discovers, to his horror, that he has stolen a baby.

Includes poems on the various spreads, which give clues as to what is hiding in the picture opposite.

Features a free letter set keepsake containing 10 Jolly Postman letters, 10 decorated envelopes and a sticker sheet.

The robbers of London town plan a desperate crime on Christmas Eve - to steal all the toys they can lay their hands on! Fortunately, the robbers meet their match in brave Officer Pugh who leaps into action and arrests the villains - all except Grandma Swagg who manages to get away.

A board book version of the author's picture book.

A collection of poems about school. It features poems about typical classroom events such as: the candid revelations in a pupil's newsbook, the problem of copycats, bickering, making up, swaps, picking teams, and forming gangs. It also features line drawings.

Gathers riddles, jokes and humorous poems about animals, school, sports, and brothers and sisters.

A pencil draws a boy, a dog, a cat and a whole world for them to play in. Then the pencil draws a brush, and the brush adds colour to everything. Everyone is very happy, until the pencil draws a rubber... which begins rubbing everything out.

Mums and Dads, breakfasts and bedtimes, pets and toys and prams and swings. This book presents an array of baby paraphernalia.

One morning Mr Gaskitt puts on all his clothes, Mrs Gaskitt picks up a robber in her taxi and Gus and Gloria have trouble with a teacher. Horace the cat goes to a friend's to watch TV and the car radio gets things wrong. But then what happens, and why does Mr Gaskitt wear all of his clothes?

The Jolly Postman has a magical adventure in which he suffers Alice's fate and shrinks to the size of a postage stamp and meets lots of well-known characters before he is restored to his correct size and left wondering whether it was all a dream.

New Puffin edition of this adventurous and well-loved Funnybones title, part of a highly successful early reader series of eight titles. The three skeletons go out in their car one night in search of a mystery.

Banjo is about to tuck into his sausage when it jumps right up off the plate and runs away. But the sausage - whose name is Melvin - isn't alone. He's followed by the fork, the knife, the table, the French fries and even the peas. And so the chase begins. Will Banjo ever catch up with his runaway dinner?