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The Baby's Catalogue by Allan Ahlberg, Janet Ahlberg
Category: Picture Books
Janet and Allan Ahlberg's classic picture book, "The Baby's Catalogue". The bestselling picture book "The Baby's Catalogue" by the iconic British husband and wife picture book team Janet and Allan Ahlberg, creators of "Peepo!", is filled with easily recognizable objects - perfect for your baby or toddle ...Show more
The Bucket: Memories of an Inattentive Childhood by Allan Ahlberg
Category: Biography
The Bucket by Allan Ahlberg is the enthralling childhood story of one of Britain's best-loved children's authors. 'My mother, who was not my mother, I see her now, her raw red cleaner's hands twisting away at her apron as she struggled to speak. Adoption was a shameful business then in many people's eye ...Show more
The Cat Who Got Carried Away (The Gaskitt Stories) by Allan Ahlberg
Category: Children's Fiction
The third book of Allan Ahlberg's mini-masterpieces for early readers. Welcome to the latest grand and gripping Gaskitt story, in which Gus and Gloria have a lot of running to do, Mrs Gaskitt hardly ever gets out of bed and something dreadful happens to Horace! (Also starring: a brainy rat named Randolp ...Show more
The Children Who Smelled a Rat (The Gaskitt Stories) by Allan Ahlberg
Category: Children's Fiction
Early chapter book readers will chuckle their way through Allan Ahlberg's latest madcap tale about the resilient Gaskitts, in which Gus and Gloria take center stage. In this thrilling and amusing Gaskitts story, Mrs. Gaskitt finds a very peculiar package, Mr. Gaskitt loses a baby in a shopping cart, Ho ...Show more
The Goldilocks Variations by Allan Ahlberg
Category: Picture Books
Everyone knows what happened when Goldilocks met the three bears. But when she encounters a whopping 33 bears, a strange-talking Blim, or even three little pigs on her search for porridge, the stories end a bit differently.
The Goldilocks Variations by Allan Ahlberg
Category: Picture Books
A classic fairy tale is wittily retold by the celebrated Allan Ahlberg, with charming illustrations by his daughter, Jessica Ahlberg. Everyone knows what happened when Goldilocks met the three bears. But when she encounters a whopping thirty-three bears, the strange-talking Bliim, or even three little p ...Show more
The Jolly Pocket Postman by Allan Ahlberg
Category: Picture Books | Series: Janet Ahlberg & Allan Ahlberg
The third adventure for the Jolly Postman, complete with envelopes and letters big and very small! Once more the Jolly Postman rides - and flies - and shrinks! This brilliant book by Janet and Allan Ahlberg is the third adventure for the Jolly Postman, originally published in 1995 and now back in prin ...Show more
The Man Who Wore All His Clothes (The Gaskitt Stories #1) by Allan Ahlberg
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: The Gaskitts
The first of Allan Ahlberg's mini-masterpieces for early readers, with striking illustrations by Katharine McEwen. Winner of the Red House Children's Book Award, this book is the first in a series of brilliantly funny early readers by Allan Ahlberg. One morning Mr Gaskitt puts on all his clothes, Mrs G ...Show more
The Pencil by Allan Ahlberg
Category: Picture Books
From the acclaimed duo behind The Runaway Dinner and Previously comes a playful, witty story about the power of imagination. Welcome back Banjo, the boy from The Runaway Dinner! Once a pencil draws him, there's no telling what will come next - a dog, a cat, a chase (of course), and a paintbrush to colou ...Show more
The Pencil by Allan Ahlberg
Category: Picture Books
The acclaimed duo behind The Runaway Dinner and Previously imagine the comical world that comes to life when a pencil starts to draw… “A hilarious and utterly enchanting new classic” The Times A special fifteenth anniversary edition of a modern classic. The Pencil is a playful, witty, wonderfully quirky ...Show more
The Pencil by Allan Ahlberg
Category: Picture Books
The creators of THE RUNAWAY DINNER and PREVIOUSLY team up to imagine the comical world that comes to life when a lonely pencil starts to draw. "One day that little pencil made a move, shivered slightly, quivered somewhat . . . and began to draw." Welcome back Banjo, the boy from THE RUNAWAY DINN ...Show more
The Pet Shop (A Funnybones Story) by Allan Ahlberg
Category: Picture Books | Series: Funnybones
In a dark dark street There is a dark dark house . . . In this FUNNYBONES story, the big skeleton and the little skeleton are fed up with the dog skeleton and decide to swap him at the pet shop. They start off with a goldfish but soon get tired of him and swap him for a parrot - but soon they get bored ...Show more