Allan Ahlberg

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  • Bibliography:
    82 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1980
  • Latest Book:
    July 2024
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Book List in Order: 82 titles

  • Mrs. Wobble The Waitress

    Mrs Wobble LOVES her job as a waitress but, oh dear, there's one big problem - she wobbles!! And when she wibbles and wobbles and drops jelly everywhere, it's time for a new job! Luckily, Mr Wobble, and all the Wobble children have a cunning plan . ....

  • Master Money the Millionaire

  • The Great Marathon Football Match

  • Miss Brick the Builder's Baby

    Mr and Mrs Brick are builders, just like their mothers and fathers and grandmothers and grandfathers. But their new baby doesn''t seem to be following in their footsteps. Instead of building things up, she keeps knocking things down!

    Based on ...

  • Mr. and Mrs. Hay the Horse

  • Babys Catalogue

    This paperback edition of the bestselling picture book The Baby's Catalogue by the iconic British husband and wife picture book team Janet and Allan Ahlberg, creators of Peepo!, is filled with easily recognizable objects - perfect for your baby or to...

  • Big Bad Pig

  • Fee Fi Fo Fum

  • Happy Worm



  • Help!

  • Woof!

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    He felt a curious tingling in his hands and feet. He felt his nose becoming cold and wet, his ears becoming flappy. Eric is a perfectly ordinary boy. Perfectly ordinary that is, until the night when, safely tucked up in bed, he slowly but surely t...

  • Make a Face

  • Mrs. Jolly's Joke Shop

    ‘I say, I say, I say, have you heard the story of Mrs Jolly’s Joke Shop? No? Well, here it is!’ The Jolly family love jokes and they know how to keep laughing, even when life gets tricky. Based on the classic ‘Happy Families’ card game, thi...

  • Starting School

    Janet and Allan Ahlberg''s classic, Starting School.

    From first day nerves to finding your peg, this reassuring read is full of humour and fun for children and parents alike. A classic picture book which offers advice and enjoyment for the whole f...

  • Ten in a Bed

    Every night a new fairy tale character shows up in Dinah Price's bedroom and every night, instead of becoming exasperated, Dinah swiftly deals with the visitors by turning their tales into twists that send them running....

  • The Mighty Slide

    ‘This is the storyOf Alison Hubble,Who went to bed single,And woke up double.’Here, in verse, are the hilariously original stories of a mighty slide, a man who fought crocodiles, a girl who doubled, a couple of baby skinners and a thing that live...

  • The Pet Shop

    In a dark dark streetThere is a dark dark house . . .In this FUNNYBONES story, the big skeleton and the little skeleton are fed up with the dog skeleton and decide to swap him at the pet shop. They start off with a goldfish but soon get tired of him ...

  • The Mysteries of Zigomar; Poems & Stories

  • Mystery Tour

    Mystery Tour is one of the titles in Allan Ahlberg's iconic children's picture book series about skeletons, Funnybones. Despite being set in a dark dark house, this brightly coloured book is perfect for early readers! One dark dark night the three sk...



  • Heard it in the Playground

    'The teacher tapped his forehead. At last! the children cried!The answer, Sir's, in your head...What a perfect place to hide'Jump into Allan Ahlberg's playful world of poetry, perfect for primary school children.Shed a tear for The Boy Without A Name...

  • Ghost Train

    The Ghost Train is one of the titles in Allan Ahlberg's iconic children's picture book series about skeletons, Funnybones. Despite being set in a dark dark house, this brightly coloured book is perfect for early readers! Whoo-ooo-ooo! It's midnight a...

  • Skeleton Crew

    Skeleton Crew is one of the titles in Allan Ahlberg's iconic children's picture book series about skeletons, Funnybones. Despite being set in a dark dark house, this brightly coloured book is perfect for early readers! Zzz! The three skeletons enjoy ...

  • The Bear Nobody Wanted

  • The Black Cat

    In a dark dark streetThere is a dark dark house . . .In this FUNNYBONES story, the skeletons go sledging - WHEE! - and crashing - BANG!They can't see their bones in the white snow but they can see a black cat . . . until she slips into their dark, da...

  • Funnybones

    This is how the story begins.
    On a dark dark hill
    there was a dark dark town.
    In the dark dark town
    there was a dark dark street . . .

    This new edition of the classic story includes an accompanying CD, featuring the story read by a...

  • Dinosaur Dreams

    Dinosaur Dreams is one of the titles in Allan Ahlberg's iconic children's picture book series about skeletons, Funnybones. Despite being set in a dark dark house, this brightly coloured book is perfect for early readers!The big skeleton and the littl...

  • The Ghosts of War

    A breezy and entertaining tale set in the days when school desks had inkwells features a renowned, but slightly nutty, doctor, a kidnapping, some notorious criminals, a lonely girl, and an extremely humongous baby....

  • The Better Brown Stories

    An ordinary family of characters goes in search of their own author to demand that their story be both exciting and realistic, and throughout their subsequent adventures, they offer plenty of suggestions to keep the writer busy....

  • Tell Us a Story



  • Ms. Cliff The Climber

    This is the story of ups and downs, and tangles, in the life of the keen mountain climber, Clara Cliff. She marries, has children, divorces, remarries, has more children and all in all has more than the usual quota of family fun and adventure....

  • Monkey Do!

  • Mockingbird

    The creator of the Jolly Postman books revisits the traditional lullaby, as Mama, Papa, Polly, Rosie, and Granny make it a special day for the family's new little baby, captured in warm, nostalgic color illustrations....

  • Chicken Chips And Peas

    Chicken, Chips and Peas is an enchanting picture book by the iconic British husband and wife picture book team Janet and Allan Ahlberg, creators of Peepo! Perfect as a bedtime story and for children learning to read! Fast Fox is determined to have ch...

  • Jeremiah In The Dark Woods

    Once upon a time there were three bears, seven dwarfs, five gorillas, a frog prince, some sleeping beauties, a wolf, a dinosaur, a mad hatter, a steamboat, four firemen on a fire engine, a considerable number of giant beanstalks â€" and a little boy ...

  • Master Tracks Train

    Master Track is adopted as a baby when he is found by Mr and Mrs Track in a handbag on a railway station. Little do they realise that he's going to grow up to be a hero and rescue a train that's been stolen by Mr Creep the Crook and his family....

  • The Bravest Ever Bear

  • The Jolly Pocket Postman

    Once more the Jolly Postman rides - and flies - and shrinks! This brilliant book is the third adventure for the Jolly Postman, originally published in 1995 and now back in print! The Jolly Postman's morning is set off course when he suffers a bump to...

  • The Jolly Postman or Other People's Letters

    Once upon a bicycle, so they say The Jolly Postman came one day . . . Join the Jolly Postman on his rounds as he delivers cards and letters to various fairy-tale characters. He has a letter of apology for the three bears from Goldilocks, a postcard f...

  • One, Two, Flea!

    Friendly advice for reading fun included in every book!

    READ AND SHARE is a unique first library for parents and children that helps build early readers’ confidence. Grouped in four progressive levels, Read and Share books - available indivi...



  • Cops and Robbers

    This is a new Puffin edition of Allan Ahlberg's best-selling Cops and Robbers classic picture book, with a brand new look! The robbers of London town plan a desperate crime one Christmas Eve - to steal all the toys they can lay their hands on! Fortun...

  • Giant Baby

    A breezy and entertaining tale set in the days when school desks had inkwells features a renowned, but slightly nutty, doctor, a kidnapping, some notorious criminals, a lonely girl, and an extremely humongous baby....

  • My Brother's Ghost

    Frances Foggarty, now in her fifties, remembers her childhood.. When she was nine her ten-year-old brother, Tom, was hit by a milk-float and killed. He returns after the funeral and Frances's story is of her new relationship with Tom, the ghost and '...

  • The Snail House

    Allan Ahlberg's fanciful tale, paired with beautifully detailed artwork by Gillian Tyler, invites children to see the world from a different perspective.

    Here is the story Grandma tells one evening on her wide veranda steps. It has Michael and...

  • The Adventures of Bert

    Meet Bert.
    Say hallo to Bert.

    Bert is a friendly chap who has many strange and exciting adventures. For instance, one morning as he struggles to put on a shirt, Bert falls down the stairs, out the door, and into the back of a truck, which t...

  • The Jolly Christmas Postman

    The Jolly Postman rides again with more real letters, and presents, too, in his Christmas postbag.

    This gorgeously illustrated, full-color classic celebrates a time before email with an interactive picture book full of real letters to read alo...

  • Treasure Hunt

    Little ones can follow along as Tilly, who simply adores treasure hunting, makes all sorts of exciting discoveries throughout the day, but when it comes time for bed, Mommy and Daddy must go on a special treasure hunt to find their precious little gi...

  • A Bit More Bert

    The bumbling, child-friendly hero of The Adventures of Bert returns to transform mundane moments and everyday tasks into "adventures" that are now even more ridiculous. We meet Bert's mother (and learn Bert's secret regarding her boiled cabbage). We ...

  • Please Mrs. Butler

    The bestselling and much-loved children's poetry classic, Please Mrs Butler by Allan Ahlberg is celebrating its 30th anniversary! With a fresh new look for a brand new generation of school children to take to its heart, every teacher, parent and chil...

  • The Little Cat Baby



  • The Improbable Cat

    The Burrell family could never have foreseen the consequences of adopting the tiny stray kitten that appeared when David was twelve. But the sweet cat is not as harmless as it seems, and soon has them completely under its sinister spell. The only one...

  • Mr. Cosmo the Conjuror

    When Mr Cosmo the conjuror arrives in town with his wife and children, everyone gets very excited. His colourful caravan has six pigeons flying over it, six rabbits peeping out of it â€" but not one single person is driving it! Some amazing magical t...

  • Mr. Biff the Boxer

    Mr Biff and Mr Bop are boxers and deadly rivals too. Mr Bop is fit and lean and Mr Biff . . . Well, Mr Biff likes a cream cake or two. Will he ever be able to toughen up in time for the annual charity match. Gulp!...

  • The Boy, the Wolf, the Sheep and the Lettuce

    You may think you know the riddle of the boy, the wolf, the sheep and the lettuce, but this book will prove you wrong. Read Allan Ahlberg's SHOCKING EXPOSE of the truth behind a story we think we all know, including: Wolf horror! Canoe shock! Fibbing...

  • Give The Dog A Bone

    Give the Dog a Bone is one of the titles in Allan Ahlberg's iconic children's picture book series about skeletons, Funnybones. Despite being set in a dark dark house, this brightly coloured book is perfect for early readers! The dog skeleton is falli...

  • Friendly Matches

    A superb collection of football poems covering many aspects of the game. Written in a variety of verse forms - sonnets, rhyming couplets and more. As good as previous collections!...

  • The Runaway Dinner

    Talk about fast food! A hilarious, high-speed tale from the inimitable Allan Ahlberg -- catch it if you can!

    What happens if someone's dinner decides that, well, it doesn't want to be eaten? For a hungry little boy named Banjo and a savory s...

  • Previously

    The team behind THE RUNAWAY DINNER reverses direction in this clever pastiche of fairy tales in which everyone lives happily ever . . . before.

    "Jack was running like mad in the dark woods with a hen under his arm.
    Previously, he had stolen...

  • The Boyhood of Burglar Bill

    Coronation Year, 1953, and in Oldbury a Coronation football competition is organized. The boys from the bottom pitch get a team up, but there's no chance they'll win, of course. They're just the odds and sods â€" one of them is even a girl â€" but th...

  • Collected Poems

    Allan Ahlberg's five poetry books, written over a period of twenty-five years â€" Please Mrs Butler, Heard it in the Playground, Friendly Matches, The Mighty Slide and The Mysteries of Zigomar â€" have delighted generations of children and received m...

  • The Pencil

    The creators of THE RUNAWAY DINNER and PREVIOUSLY team up to imagine the comical world that comes to life when a lonely pencil starts to draw.

    "One day that little pencil made a move, shivered slightly, quivered somewhat . . . and began to dra...

  • Baby in the Hat

    A simple, singsong text and child-friendly illustrations tell an amusing tale of a baby saved and an adventurous hero born.

    When you've caught a baby in a hat, what else is there to do but to sail all over the world and return, with treasure i...

  • Bumps in the Night

    Bumps in the Night is one of the titles in Allan Ahlberg's iconic children's picture book series about skeletons, Funnybones. Despite being set in a dark dark house, this brightly coloured book is perfect for early readers!No matter where they are, t...

  • Peepo!

    This edition is optimised for colour devices.

    PEEPO! follows a baby through the day in a style full of wit, charm and ingenuity, where the baby can peep through to the next page and see a hint of what is to come. An original book that has...

  • Children Who Smelled a Rat

  • The Baby's Catalogue

    Janet and Allan Ahlberg's classic, The Baby's Catalogue - as a sturdy board book! This board book edition of the bestselling picture book The Baby's Catalogue by the iconic British husband and wife picture book team Janet and Allan Ahlberg, creators ...

  • The Cat Who Got Carried Away

    Welcome to the latest grand and gripping Gaskitt story, in which Gus and Gloria have a lot of running to do, Mrs Gaskitt hardly ever gets out of bed and something dreadful happens to Horace! (Also starring: a brainy rat named Randolph; a barking pram...

  • The Man Who Wore All His Clothes

    One morning Mr Gaskitt puts on all his clothes, Mrs Gaskitt picks up a robber in her taxi, Gus & Gloria have trouble with a teacher, Horace the cat goes to a friend's house to watch TV and the car radio gets things wrong. What happens next is an acti...

  • The Woman Who Won Things

    One lucky morning ...Mrs Gaskitt opens the post and finds she's won a prize! Next she kisses the postman! Never mind, though - the postman is Mr Gaskitt doing his very latest job. Meanwhile, Gus and Gloria get a new teacher, Mrs Plum, with silvery ha...

  • The Goldilocks Variations

    A classic fairy tale is wittily retold by the celebrated Allan Ahlberg, with charming illustrations by his daughter, Jessica Ahlberg. Everyone knows what happened when Goldilocks met the three bears. But when she encounters a whopping thirty-three...

  • Hooray for Bread

    From the comic duo behind The Runaway Dinner and The Pencil comes a day in the life of a loaf of bread, told slice by yummy slice. Early in the morning the baker bakes a delicious loaf of bread. So delicious, in fact, that by the time the sun goes...

  • Kicking a Ball

    For anyone who can't see a ball without wanting to kick it, head it, shoot it, or boot it! 'Not eating an ice-creamOr riding a bikeNo - kicking a ballIs what I like.''What I like best, yes, most of allin my whole life is . . . kicking a ball.A wo...

  • Miss Jump the Jockey

    Miss Jump the Jockey is a hilarious picture book by Allan Ahlberg, illustrated by Andre Amstutz. Miss Josie Jump the jockey can't wait to gallop in a race like her mum, her brother and even her grandma, but everyone says she's too young. But then gra...

  • Mrs. Vole the Vet

    Mrs Vole the Vet has one son, two daughters, three cats, four dogs and no husband.Really, she has everything she needs and she works very hard - no job is too big, too small or too high - but her children think that what she really needs is a boyfrie...

  • Miss Dirt the Dustman's Daughter

    Daisy Dirt's dad is a dustman on the dole, but her mum has remarried a Duke and is a filthy rich Duchess. Poor Daisy doesn't know whether she's coming or going, whether she's rich or poor - until everything changes . . .Based on the classic 'Happy Fa...

  • Mr. Creep the Crook

    Mr Creep the Crook is a bad man, and all his family are bad too - even Growler, his dog. But when he escapes from jail and heads to the seaside, he finds out that being bad is not such a good idea after all. . .The 'Happy Families' series is designed...

  • Alison Hubble

    This is the story of Alison Hubble Who went to bed single . . . And woke up double! A tale of MATHEMATICAL MAYHEM from magnificent illustrator Bruce Ingman and master storyteller Allan Ahlberg! Alison Hubble is shocked when she wakes up to find a twi...

  • Mr. Tick the Teacher

    One of the classic Happy Families stories written by Allan Ahlberg and illustrated by Faith Jaques.

    Mr Tick loves teaching his six children at their little school. But then they hear news that all small schools must close, so Mr Tick starts ...

  • Mrs. Lather's Laundry

    A classic Happy Families story written by Allan Ahlberg and illustrated by Andre Amstutz

    Mrs Lather is getting quite worked up in her laundry. She hates washing socks, she hates washing vests, she really doesn't much like washing trousers or...

  • Master Bun the Bakers' Boy

    Bertie Bun was born to be a baker. His mum is a baker. His dad is a baker. Even his grandparents were bakers. But Bertie has a big problem - he's bored of bread! He wants to be a butcher's boy, or a bus-driver's boy or even a balloonist's boy - and h...

  • Baby on Board

    Once, many years ago,there was a baby,in his pram,with his sistersand their sandwiches and lemonadeand toys . . .A lyrical and epic story about a baby and a trio of toys, and their adventure on the high seas. Beautifully told by master storyteller Al...

  • Bye Bye Baby

    The story of a baby who is sad and sets off one day in search of a mummy. He meets a cat, a teddy, a clockwork hen and an uncle who all refuse to be his mummy but offer to help him in his search. They find a lady who has no baby and she agrees to bet...

  • Under the Table

    Nothing is what it seems—and anything can happen—when the hilarious team of Allan Ahlberg and Bruce Ingman sneak a peek under the table.What do you do when you’re having an ordinary day, only to discover there’s a big gray ele...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Allan Ahlberg has published 82 books.

Allan Ahlberg does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Under the Table, was published in July 2024.

The first book by Allan Ahlberg, Mrs. Wobble The Waitress, was published in January 1980.

No. Allan Ahlberg does not write books in series.
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