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Janet Ahlberg (1944–1994)

Författare till Each Peach Pear Plum

47+ verk 11,249 medlemmar 191 recensioner 2 favoritmärkta

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

Inkluderar namnen: Janet Ahlberg, ジャネット アルバーグ

Inkluderar även: Ahlberg (1)

Foto taget av: With husband Allan and daughter Jessica (1989)

Serier

Verk av Janet Ahlberg

Each Peach Pear Plum (1978) 3,519 exemplar
Den glade brevbärarens jul (1991) 1,070 exemplar
Peepo! (1981) 946 exemplar
Funnybones (1980) 581 exemplar
The Jolly Pocket Postman (1995) 431 exemplar
The Baby's Catalogue (1982) 302 exemplar
Burglar Bill (1977) 295 exemplar
Starting School (1988) 256 exemplar
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night (1993) 254 exemplar
The Ha Ha Bonk Book (1982) 179 exemplar
Cops and Robbers (1973) 164 exemplar
The Bear Nobody Wanted (1992) 145 exemplar
Jeremiah in the Dark Woods (1977) 140 exemplar
Bye Bye Baby (1989) 115 exemplar
The Worm Book (1979) 91 exemplar
The Vanishment of Thomas Tull (1977) 34 exemplar
The Old Joke Book (1976) 26 exemplar
Son of a Gun (1979) 23 exemplar
The Cinderella Show (1986) 10 exemplar
Playmates (Slot Book) (1984) 9 exemplar
Night (1972) 9 exemplar
Yum Yum (1984) 6 exemplar
Här kommer Kalle Dubbel (1979) 4 exemplar
Each Peach Pear Plum (Video) — Författare — 2 exemplar
Making Music (Starters) (1973) 2 exemplar
The Baby's Catalogue Frieze (1993) 1 exemplar
La Famille Petitplats (2003) 1 exemplar
BANGDITI! 1 exemplar
De puike pakket post (1992) 1 exemplar
Which Witch? (1983) 1 exemplar
Prune Peche Poire Prune (1989) 1 exemplar

Associerade verk

Mrs. Wobble the Waitress (1980) — Illustratör — 137 exemplar
Mr. Biff the Boxer (1980) — Illustratör — 108 exemplar
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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Diskussioner

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Recensioner

Rated "Indifferent" in our old book database by Rod and Adelia
 
Flaggad
villemezbrown | Feb 24, 2024 |
EducatingParents.org rating: Approved
 
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MamaBearLendingDen | 60 andra recensioner | Dec 8, 2023 |
Genre
Classics
Hidden-picture books
Picture books for children
Stories in rhyme
Subject
Characters and characteristics in fairy tales
Pies
 
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kmgerbig | 60 andra recensioner | Apr 27, 2023 |
"La sacoche du gentil facteur est remplie de vraies lettres adressées à des célébrités : une lettre d'excuse de Boucle d'or pour les Trois Ours, un extrait du catalogue des magasins Farfadjin pour la méchante sorcière, une carte postale de Jack pour le Géant, et bien d'autres encore...) 4e de couverture
 
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marievictoire | 48 andra recensioner | Apr 15, 2023 |

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Allan Ahlberg Author, Joint Author.
Buffy Allen Actress
Andre Amstutz Illustrator

Statistik

Verk
47
Även av
3
Medlemmar
11,249
Popularitet
#2,091
Betyg
4.2
Recensioner
191
ISBN
331
Språk
15
Favoritmärkt
2

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