Janet Ahlberg (1944–1994)
Författare till Each Peach Pear Plum
Om författaren
Janet Ahlberg was born in Huddersfield, England in 1944 and brought up in Leicester. Originally trained as a teacher in Sunderland from 1963 to 1966, Ahlberg was encouraged to paint and draw. She decided that keeping charge of a class was very hard work so she decided to develop her artistic visa mer ability and went to study graphic design at Leicester Polytechnic for three years. She met and married Allan Ahlberg and began to illustrate books for children, first with Night published in 1972, and then with The Brick Street Boys series, written by her husband. Since then, she and Allan Ahlberg have worked together successfully. Another series, also written by Allan Ahlberg, is Happy Families, published by Puffin Books. In 1978, Ahlberg was awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal for Each Peach, Pear, Plum. Ahlberg is a two time winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal having won again in 1991for The Jolly Christmas Postman. She was awarded the Kurt Maschler Awards in 1986 for The Jolly Postman: or Other People's Letters, whoch sold over a million copies worlwide. Sadly Janet Ahlberg died in 1994 at the age of 50 after suffering from cancer (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Foto taget av: With husband Allan and daughter Jessica (1989)
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Verk av Janet Ahlberg
Each Peach Pear Plum (Video) — Författare — 2 exemplar
Que Ossos Curiosos! 1 exemplar
Two Wheels Two Heads 1 exemplar
BANGDITI! 1 exemplar
The Jolly Postman Rides Again 1 exemplar
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Cricket Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 10, June 1978 — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Andra namn
- Hall, Janet (birth name)
- Födelsedag
- 1944-10-21
- Avled
- 1994-11-15
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Land (för karta)
- England, UK
- Födelseort
- Yorkshire, England, UK
- Dödsort
- Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK
- Dödsorsak
- cancer (breast)
- Bostadsorter
- Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK
- Utbildning
- Sunderland Technical College
- Yrken
- Book Illustrator
- Relationer
- Ahlberg, Allan (husband)
Ahlberg, Jessica (daughter) - Priser och utmärkelser
- Kate Greenaway Medal (1978)
- Kort biografi
- Janet Ahlberg (1944-1994) was a British children's book illustrator, and the co-creator, together with her husband Allan Ahlberg, of the best-selling Jolly Postman series. Born as Janet Hall in Yorkshire in 1944, she studied at Sunderland Technical College, where she met Ahlberg. The two married in 1969, and began to work together, publishing their first co-venture - The Old Joke Book - in 1976. She won the 1978 Kate Greenaway Medal from the British Library Association - an award recognizing the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject - for Each Peach Pear Plum.
Janet Ahlberg died of breast cancer in 1994, at the age of fifty, having produced many beloved and bestselling books. Her daughter with Allan Ahlberg - Jessica Ahlberg - is also a children's book creator.
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