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Each Peach Pear Plum

Each Peach Pear Plum

Mini paperback edition

Summary

Each Peach Pear Plum is a timeless picture book classic from the bestselling illustrator/author team Janet and Allan Ahlberg, creators of Peepo!. Each beautifully illustrated page in this pocket-sized edition encourages young children to interact with the picture to find the next fairy tale and nursery rhyme character. This mini paperback version is the perfect size for little hands to hold!

In this book
With your little eye,
Take a look,
And play 'I spy'

Praise for Each Peach Pear Plum:

'Deceptively simple. Each Peach Pear Plum is a work of genius' Elaine Moss

'This familiar rhyme has been given the brilliant Ahlbreg treatment to which no young child can fail to respond. It's a book which will be read over and over again . . . just perfect!' Child Education

'A charming, pictorial fantasia...a warm, sunny, delectable picture book' Brian Alderson, The Times

Allan Ahlberg has published over 100 children's books and with his late wife Janet, created such award-winning children's picture books, including Peepo!, and the Kate Greenaway Medal winning The Jolly Postman.

About the authors

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.
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Allan Ahlberg

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 PEACH 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.
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