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Janet Ahlberg

    21 octobre 1944 – 13 novembre 1994

    Janet Ahlberg était une illustratrice britannique de livres pour enfants, célèbre pour son travail en collaboration avec son mari, qui a abouti à la très appréciée série Jolly Postman. Ses illustrations sont chéries pour leur humour doux et leur œil attentif aux détails, ajoutant des couches de chaleur et d'esprit aux récits. Ahlberg avait un don pour la narration visuelle, où chaque image contribuait de manière significative au récit général, stimulant l'imagination des enfants. Son style distinctif est reconnu pour capturer l'essence de l'enfance et enchanter les jeunes lecteurs.

    Funnybones: A Bone Rattling Collection
    The Jolly Christmas Postman
    The Jolly Pocket Postman
    The Jolly Postman: Or Other People's Letters
    The Jolly Postman or Other People's Letters. OR, OTHER PEOPLE'S LETTERS
    Prune, pêche, poire, prune
    • This nostalgic classic, including real letters, is a must-have for every child! This gorgeously illustrated, full-color classic celebrates a time before email by depicting amusing correspondence between fairy tale and Mother Goose characters. What could possibly be in a letter from Goldilocks to the Three Bears? Who would write to the Wicked Witch? Open this book, take out the letters, and discover what favorite characters would write to each other--and reimagine best-loved tales together.

      The Jolly Postman: Or Other People's Letters
    • The Jolly Pocket Postman

      The interactive pocket-sized adventure

      • 52pages
      • 2 heures de lecture
      4,7(60)Évaluer

      A whimsical adventure unfolds as the Jolly Postman embarks on a mysterious morning round, unexpectedly shrinking to the size of a postage stamp. This enchanting tale combines elements of surprise and curiosity, inviting readers to explore a world where the ordinary becomes extraordinary. As the postman navigates his new, tiny perspective, the story promises delightful encounters and imaginative scenarios that captivate the imagination.

      The Jolly Pocket Postman
    • The Jolly Christmas Postman

      • 52pages
      • 2 heures de lecture
      4,5(465)Évaluer

      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 hospitalised Humpty Dumpty and three more surprise envelopes containing letters, cards, etc. Everyone's favourite postman keeps on peddling his bicycle up hill and down dale . . . and into everybody's hearts.

      The Jolly Christmas Postman
    • Funnybones: A Bone Rattling Collection

      • 78pages
      • 3 heures de lecture
      4,4(64)Évaluer

      Contains three stories about skeletons: The Ghost Train, Bumps in the Night and Skeleton Crew. This collection is suitable for early readers.

      Funnybones: A Bone Rattling Collection
    • Peepo!

      • 34pages
      • 2 heures de lecture
      4,4(645)Évaluer

      There's a lot packed in to this little board book. A delightful rhyme takes baby through everything he can see in his world over the course of the day. 'Peep-hole' cutouts provide little windows onto evocative illustrations which capture his environment in detail - the park, the house and garden and his family. 'The BEST book ever published for babies' Books for Your Children

      Peepo!
    • Cops and Robbers

      • 32pages
      • 2 heures de lecture
      4,4(518)Évaluer

      This is a new Puffin edition of Allan Ahlberg's best-selling Cops and Robbers classic picture book, with a brand new cover! The robbers of London town plan a desperate crime one Christmas Eve - to steal all the toys they can lay their hands on! Fortunately, the robbers meet their match in brave office Pugh who leaps into action and arrests the villains - all except Grandma Swagg who manages to get away.

      Cops and Robbers
    • 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 Randolph; a barking pram; and a considerable number of penguins.) What more do you want? "Huge fun and ideal for early readers." The Independent on Sunday "Ahlberg's direct and funny storytelling style makes reading as near-effortless as possible." The Guardian "A delight from beginning to end. The pictures are outstanding and mark the advent of a really inspired illustrator." The Financial Times

      The Cat Who Got Carried Away
    • Shine a light

      • 18pages
      • 1 heure de lecture
      4,3(13)Évaluer

      The Funnybones are at their scariest in this book for reading by torchlight. Using an ordinary torch, children can follow the skeletons as they go out at night, projecting eight spooky images on to the wall.

      Shine a light