Starting School is easy and fun with Janet and Allan Ahlberg's picture-book classics. From first-day nerves to finding your peg, this helpful and reassuring read is full of humour for children and parents alike.
Allan Ahlberg (Author) Allan Ahlberg, a former teacher, postman, plumber's mate and grave digger, is in the super-league of children's writers. He has published over 100 children's books and, with his late wife Janet, created such award winning picture books as Each Pear Plum and The Jolly Postman - both winners of the Kate Greenaway Medal. He has also written prize-winning poetry and fiction and lives in Sussex. Janet Ahlberg (Illustrator) Janet Ahlberg, along with Allan Ahlberg, created some of the world's most popular picture books, including Each Peach Pear Plum and The Jolly Christmas Postman, both winners of Greenaway Medals, and The Baby's Catalogue, inspired by their daughter Jessica. Janet died in 1994.
Starting School, one more Janet and Allan Ahlberg book that gets
everything right * Guardian *
The Ahlbergs belong, with A.A. Milne and Lewis Carroll, to the
greatest tradition of children's books * Sunday Times *
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