Janet Ahlberg (21 October 1944 – 15 November 1994; née Hall) and Allan Ahlberg (born 5 June 1938) were a British married couple who created many children's books, including picture books that regularly appear at the top of "most popular" lists for public libraries.
[ They worked together for 20 years until Janet's death from cancer in 1994. He wrote the books and she illustrated them.][ Allan Ahlberg has also written dozens of books with other illustrators.
Janet Ahlberg won two ]Kate Greenaway Medal
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s for illustrating their books[ and the 1978 winner ''Each Peach Pear Plum'' was named one of the top ten winning works for the 50th anniversary of the Medal (1955–2005).][ In the US it was published by ]Viking Press
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in 1979 as ''Each Peach Pear Plum: an "I Spy" story''; the national library catalogue summary explains, "Rhymed text and illustrations invite the reader to play 'I spy
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' with a variety of Mother Goose
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and other folklore characters."
Biography
Allan Ahlberg was born 5 June 1938 in Croydon
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. An illegitimate
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child, he was adopted and brought up in Oldbury, in Sandwell
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in the West Midlands
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.[ He has called it "a very poor working-class family" and identified himself as the baby in ''Peepo!'' (1981). He grew up with "no books and not much conversation".][
Janet Hall was born 21 October 1944 in ]Yorkshire
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and brought up in Leicester
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.[ The Ahlbergs both trained as teachers at Sunderland Technical College, where they met during the 1960s and married in 1969.][
Janet illustrated ''My Growing Up Book'' by Bernard Garfinkel (New York: Platt & Munk, 1972), which the US ]Library of Congress
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calls "A child's record of the things he has learned and done from the time of birth through age five. Also provides a place to paste photographs."
Their joint work began when she asked him, a primary school teacher, to write a story.[
The first three published Ahlberg collaborations appeared in 1976 and 1977, ''The Old Joke Book'', ''The Vanishment of Thomas Tull'', and ''Burglar Bill'' (1977).][ ''Vanishment'' was bound in hardcover with a ]dustjacket
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, while many of their early works were "pictorial laminated boards".[ For ''Each Peach Pear Plum'' (Kestrel), Janet won the 1978 ]Kate Greenaway Medal
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from the British Library Association
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, recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject
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.[ For the 50th anniversary of the Medal, a 2007 panel named it one of the top ten winning works, which composed the ballot for a public election of the nation's favourite.][ ''Each Peach Pear Plum'' finished a close second to the 1977 medalist, '' Dogger'' by ]Shirley Hughes
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; the margin was 1% of the vote.[
Probably their greatest success was '']The Jolly Postman
''The Jolly Postman or Other People's Letters'' is an interactive children's picture book by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. The innovative project required five years to complete, and much discussion with both the publisher Heinemann and the printer b ...
'', published by Heinemann in 1986; Allan Ahlberg told ''The Guardian'' in 2006 that it had sold over six million copies. It made innovative use of envelopes to include letters, cards, games and a tiny book.[ According to one ]WorldCat
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library record,
"A Jolly Postman delivers letters to several famous fairy-tale characters such as the Big Bad Wolf, Cinderella, and the Three Bears. Twelve of the pages have been made into six envelopes and contain eight letters and cards. Each letter may be removed from its envelope page and read separately." Its first-listed Library of Congress Subject Heading
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(US) is "Toy and movable books".["The jolly postman, or, Other people's letters"]
(first U.S. edition). LCC record. Retrieved 14 November 2012.
''The Jolly Postman'' required five years to make, and much discussion with the Heinemann and the printer before it was issued in 1986. It won many awards including the Kurt Maschler Award
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for integrated writing and illustration.[ There were two sequels, ''The Jolly Christmas Postman'' (1991), for which Janet won her second Greenaway Medal,][ and ''The Jolly Pocket Postman'' (1995).
Working together, the Ahlbergs produced many popular books for a range of ages. Some, such as ''Peepo!'' and ''The Baby's Catalogue'' are aimed at babies and toddlers. For older children, they wrote books such as ''Burglar Bill'', ''Cops and Robbers'', '']Funnybones
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'' and the ''Happy Families
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'' series. Allan also wrote two books of verses, ''Heard it in the Playground'' and ''Please, Mrs Butler'', which Janet illustrated, and more text-heavy books such as ''Woof!
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''.[
Janet died of breast cancer in November 1994 at the age of 50, when their daughter Jessica was 15 years old. Allan Ahlberg says with regret that they "made an absolute fortune" but "never really had holidays".][
Allan later married his editor, Vanessa Clarke of ]Walker Books
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, his new publisher. As of 2017, he is the author of more than 150 published books, including two in 2004 illustrated by his daughter Jessica, who now creates picture books with other writers including Toon Tellegen
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.[ Father and daughter have recently collaborated again, completing a movable picture book published late in 2012, ''The Goldilocks Variations'' (Walker), "a new twist in an old fairy tale".][
Allan Ahlberg is a supporter of West Bromwich Albion F.C., having grown up in the neighbouring town to ]West Bromwich
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.
Recognition
Beside the two Greenaway Medals, Janet Ahlberg was a "Commended" runner up three times, for ''Burglar Bill'' (1977), ''The Baby's Catalogue'' (1982), and ''The Jolly Postman'' (1986).[
According to Allan, their daughter Jessica inspired the latter two, and his own "Burglar Bill" book is autobiographical, ''The Boyhood of Burglar Bill'' (Puffin, 2007).][ A football story set in war-ravaged England, ''Boyhood'' made the ]Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
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shortlist.["Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2007"]
''The Guardian''. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
Allan appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio
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programme ''Desert Island Discs
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Each week a guest, called a " castaway" during the programme, is asked to choose eight recordings (usu ...
'' on 14 November 2008. He described their work together, her illness and death, and the creation of ''Janet's Last Book''.
From July to September 2011, Janet and Allan's work was celebrated at The Public arts centre in Sandwell
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(which encompasses Allan's hometown Oldbury). The exhibition included works by schoolchildren with local artists "in response to" Ahlberg stories.
In July 2014, Allan Ahlberg declined the (inaugural) Booktrust Best Book Awards 'Lifetime Achievement Award' (which has a 5000 GBP prize attached). He cited ethical grounds related to the award's principal sponsor Amazon.com
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. In a letter to ''The Bookseller
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'' he stated that "Booktrust does good work and has a well-deserved reputation ... For my part, the idea that my "lifetime achievement"— i.e. the books (and all of Janet's work too)—should have the Amazon tag attached to it is unacceptable."
Allan Ahlberg sits on the Council of the Society of Authors
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.
Selected works
By Janet and Allan Ahlberg
Bookseller World mentions about 80 " UK First Editions Books" by Janet and Allan. Five series comprise more than 40 books, none published by Kestrel
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or Viking
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who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded and se ...
; 35 singletons include 8 published by Kestrel (a Viking imprint
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) from 1976 to 1983, and 12 published by Viking from 1984 to 1994.[
* '' Brick Street Boys'' (]Collins
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, 1975) — five volumes[
* '']The Old Joke Book
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'' (Kestrel, 1976) — board book
* '' Burglar Bill'' (Heinemann Heinemann may refer to:
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, 1977) — board book
* '' Jeremiah in the Dark Woods'' (Kestrel, 1977) — board book
* '' The Vanishment of Thomas Tull'' (Black
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, 1977) — with dust jacket[
* '' Cops and Robbers'' (Heinemann, 1978)
* '' Each Peach Pear Plum'' (Kestrel, 1978)
* '' The One and Only Two Heads'' (Collins, 1979)
* '']Son of a Gun
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'' (Heinemann, 1979)
* ''The Little Worm Book
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'' (Granada
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, 1979)
* '' Two Wheels Two Heads'' (Collins, 1979)
* ''Funny Bones
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'' (Heinemann, 1980)
* '' A Pair of Sinners'' (Granada, 1980)
* ''Happy Families
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'' ( Puffin, 1980)
* '' Peepo!'' (also released as '' Peek-A-Boo!'' in a US version) (Kestrel, 1981)
* '' The Ha Ha Bonk Book'' (Kestrel, 1982)
* '' Help Your Child to Read'' (Granada, 1982)
* '' The Baby's Catalogue'' (Kestrel, 1982)
* '' Ditto Frieze'' (1982)
* '' Ten in a Bed'' (Granada, 1983)
* ''Please Mrs Butler
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'' (Kestrel, 1983)
* '' Daisy Chains'' (Heinemann, 1983)
* '' Yum Yum'' (Viking, 1984)
* '' Playmates'' (Viking, 1984)
* '' Foldaways'' (Viking, 1984)
* '' Red Nose Readers'' (Walker
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, 1985)
* '' Woof'' (Viking, 1986)
* ''The Cinderella Show
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'' (Viking, 1986)
* ''The Jolly Postman
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'' (Heinemann, 1986)
* '' The Clothes Horse and Other Stories'' (Viking, 1987)
* ''The Mighty Slide
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'' (Viking, 1988)
* '' Starting School'' (Viking, 1988)
* '' Heard it in the Playground'' (Viking, 1989)
* '' Bye Bye Baby'' (Heinemann, 1989)
* '' Funny Bones Early Readers'' (Heinemann, 1990)
* '' The Jolly Christmas Postman'' (Heinemann, 1991)
* ''The Bear Nobody Wanted
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'' (Viking, 1992)
* '' Mrs. Butler Songbook'' (Viking, 1992)
* ''It Was a Dark and Stormy Night
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'' (Viking, 1993)
* '' The Giant Baby'' (Viking, 1994)
* '' The Jolly Pocket Postman'' (1995)
'' The Baby's Catalogue'' series, American Board Book editions, copyright 1982
* '' Baby Sleeps'' (1998)
* ''Blue Buggy
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'' (1998)
* '' Doll and Teddy'' (1998)
* ''See the Rabbit
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'' (1998)
Written by Allan Ahlberg
Most of these books were illustrated by other people, except '' My Brother's Ghost''.
* ''Mr. Cosmo the Conjurer
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'' (1980)
* '' Please Mrs. Butler'' (1983)
* ''Woof!
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'' (1986)
* ''The Cinderella Show
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'' (1986)
* '' Heard it in the Playground'' (1989)
* '' The Giant Baby'' (1994)
* ''The Better Brown Stories
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'' (1995)
* '' The Night Train'' (1996)
* '' Janet's Last Book'' (1997)
* '' The Snail House'' (2000)
* ''Friendly Matches
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'' (2001)
* '' My Brother's Ghost'' (2001)
* '' The Man Who Wore All His Clothes'' (2001)
* '' The Adventures of Bert'' (2001), illustrated by Raymond Briggs
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* '' The Woman who Won Things'' (2002)
* ''The Improbable Cat
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'' (2002)
* '' A Bit More Bert'' (2002), illustrated by Raymond Briggs
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* '' Half a Pig'' (2004), illustrated by Jessica Ahlberg[
* '' The Boy, the Wolf, the Sheep and the Lettuce: A Little Search for Truth???'' (2004), illus. Jessica Ahlberg][
* '' The Runaway Dinner'' (2006)
* '' The Boyhood of Burglar Bill'' (2007) — autobiographical][ post-war football story][
* '' Previously'' (2007)
* '' The Pencil'' (2008)
* '']The Baby in the Hat
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'' (2008)
* '' Everybody Was a Baby Once and Other Poems'' (2010)
* '' Goldilocks Variations'' (2012), illus. Jessica Ahlberg["The Goldilocks variations"]
(U.S. edition). LCC record. Retrieved 14 November 2012.
* '' Hooray for Bread'' 2014
Translated
* '' Starting School – French: Le livre de tous les écoliers''
See also
* Movable book
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* Toy book
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Notes
References
Further reading
* D. Martin, "Janet & Allan Ahlberg", in Douglas Martin, ''The Telling Line: Essays on Fifteen Contemporary Book Illustrators'' (Julia MacRae Books, 1989), pp. 264–78
* Allan Ahlberg, ''Janet's Last Book: Janet Ahlberg 1944–1994: a Memento'' (Privately published, 1996; Penguin Books, November 1997, )
* Wendy Lynch, ''Janet and Allan Ahlberg'' (Oxford: Heinemann Library, 2000, ) — a 24-page biography, illustrated
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