Janet Ahlberg (1944–1994)

Author of Each Peach Pear Plum

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About the Author

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 show more 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) show less

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Image credit: With husband Allan and daughter Jessica (1989)

Series

The Jolly Postman

Slot Book

Daisychains

The Baby's Catalogue Series

Works by Janet Ahlberg

Popular Recent

Each Peach Pear Plum (1978) 3,608 copies

The Jolly Postman, or, Other People's Letters (1986) 2,492 copies

The Jolly Christmas Postman (1991) 1,078 copies

Peepo! (1981) 964 copies

Funnybones (1980) 592 copies

The Jolly Pocket Postman (1995) 438 copies

The Baby's Catalogue (1982) 309 copies

Burglar Bill (1977) 295 copies

Starting School (1988) 264 copies

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night (1993) 258 copies

The Ha Ha Bonk Book (1982) 178 copies

Cops and Robbers (1973) 165 copies

The Bear Nobody Wanted (1992) 146 copies

Jeremiah in the Dark Woods (1977) 142 copies

Bye Bye Baby (1989) 119 copies

The Worm Book (1979) 93 copies

The Clothes Horse and Other Stories (1987) 57 copies

The Vanishment of Thomas Tull (1977) 36 copies

The Jolly Postman Postcard Collection (1994) 34 copies

The Baby's Catalogue: See the Rabbit (1998) 28 copies

The Old Joke Book (1976) 26 copies

Son of a Gun (1979) 25 copies

The Baby's Catalogue: Doll and Teddy (1982) 24 copies

The Baby's Catalogue: Blue Buggy (1998) 23 copies

The Baby's Catalogue: Baby Sleeps (1998) 22 copies

The Cinderella Show (1986) 10 copies

Night (1972) 9 copies

Playmates (Slot Book) (1984) 9 copies

Yum Yum (1984) 6 copies

BABY'S BIG BOX OF LITTLE BOOKS SET OF 9 CHUNKY BOARD BOOKS (2015) 6 copies

The one and only two heads (1979) 4 copies

Each Peach Pear Plum (Video) — Author — 2 copies

Monster Munch (Daisychains S.) (1984) 2 copies

Making Music (Starters) (1973) 2 copies

Two Wheels Two Heads (1979) 1 copy

The Jolly Post Office [CD-ROM] (1997) 1 copy

The Jolly Postman Picture Card Game (1986) 1 copy

Baby sucht Mama. Eine traurige Geschichte mit einem glücklichen Ende 1 copy

Starting School (Picture Puffins) by Ahlberg, Janet, Ahlberg, Allan (2013) Paperback 1 copy

Which Witch? (1983) 1 copy

Que Ossos Curiosos! 1 copy

La Famille Petitplats (2003) 1 copy

BANGDITI! 1 copy

De puike pakket post (1992) 1 copy

The Baby's Catalogue Frieze (1993) 1 copy

Sam the Referee (The Brick Street Boys) (1975) 1 copy

Prune Peche Poire Prune (1989) 1 copy

The Jolly Postman Rides Again 1 copy

Work Explorer

Associated Works

Mrs. Wobble the Waitress (1980) — Illustrator — 139 copies

Mr. Biff the Boxer (1980) — Illustrator — 109 copies

The Night Train (Penguin Children's 60s) (1996) — Cover illustration, some editions — 35 copies

Cricket Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 10, June 1978 — Contributor — 2 copies

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Common Knowledge

Other names: Hall, Janet (birth name)
Birthdate: 1944-10-21
Date of death: 1994-11-15
Gender: female
Nationality: UK
Country (for map): England, UK
Birthplace: Yorkshire, England, UK
Place of death: Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK
Cause of death: cancer (breast)
Places of residence: Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK
Education: Sunderland Technical College
Occupations: Book Illustrator
Relationships: Ahlberg, Allan (husband)
Ahlberg, Jessica (daughter)
Awards and honors: Kate Greenaway Medal (1978)
Short biography: 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.