New Releases by Janet Ahlberg

Penguin presents Funny Bones: The Collection by Allan Ahlberg, read by Stephen Mangan. An audio collection of the perennially popular Funny Bones books by Allan Ahlberg Featuring: Funnybones, The Pet Shop, The Black Cat, Bumps in the Night, Give the Dog a Bone, Dinosaur Dreams, Skeleton Crew and Mystery Tour.

It''s Christmas Eve and the JOLLY POSTMAN is delivering greetings to various fairy-tale characters - there''s a card for Baby Bear, a game appropriately called ''Beware'' for Red Riding Hood from Mr Wolf, a get-well jigsaw for hospitalised Humpty Dumpty and three more surprise envelopes containing letters, cards, etc. Everyone''s favourite postman keeps on peddling his bicycle up hill and down dale . . . and into everybody''s hearts.

Mr Biff and Mr Bop are boxers and famous rivals too. Mr Bop is fit and lean and Mr Biff . . . Biff! Bop! Biff! Biff! Well, Mr Biff likes a cream cake or two. Will he ever be able to toughen up in time for the big charity match. Gulp! A hilarious Happy Families picture books from Janet and Allan Ahlberg ''The Ahlbergs belong, with A.A. Milne and Lewis Carroll, to the greatest tradition of children''s books.'' Sunday Times

Peepo! is the much-loved picture book classic by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. Peepo! is a modern classic that continues to delight generations of babies and toddlers and their parents A perfect gift for new babies and parents, no home should be without a copy! Here''s a little baby One, two three Standing in his cot What does he see? Praise for Peepo! ''The best book ever published for babies'' - Books for Your Children ''Surely no one - baby, child or adult - could fail to enjoy Peepo!'' - Sunday Telegraph ''A book to last a lifetime . . . this is a perfect book for sharing'' - Nursery World Allan Ahlberg has published over 100 children''s books and with his late wife Janet, created many award-winning children''s picture books. The Baby''s Catalogue was inspired by their daughter, Jessica. The Ahlbergs'' books are nursery bookshelf standards and have been the recipient of worldwide acclaim and awards, including the Kate Greenaway Medal.

In this book with your little eye, take a look and play I spy - so starts the classic story from best-selling author/illustrator team, Janet and Allan Ahlberg. Each Peach Pear Plum introduces favourite fairy tale characters, such as Tom Thumb and The Three Bears and, with a poem on each page hinting as to what is hiding in the picture, children are encouraged to participate and follow the story themselves. Now available in digital format, this well-known favourite truly is a modern classic.

Once more the Jolly Postman rides - and flies - and shrinks! The Jolly Postman is setting off on his third adventure. . . but nothing goes quite to plan when he suffers a bump to the head, and shrinks to the size of a postage stamp! And from then it just gets curiouser and curiouser. . . Featuring a whole host of familiar characters and of course, beautiful pull-out letters and a magnifying glass, The Jolly Pocket Postman is the third story in the bestselling and award-winning series by Janet and Alan Ahlberg.

Janet and Allan Ahlberg''s hilarious picture book, Burglar Bill. Burglar Bill is an entertaining 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 Who''s that creeping down the street? Who''s that climbing up the wall? Who''s that coming through the window? Who''s that? ... It''s Burglar Bill. Allan Ahlberg has published over 100 children''s books and with his late wife Janet, created many award-winning children''s picture books, including Cops and Robbers, It was a Dark and Stormy Night, Each Peach Pear Plum and the Kate Greenaway Medal winning The Jolly Postman. Look out for these other classics by Allan Ahlberg: Kicking a Ball; The Baby''s Catalogue; Cops and Robbers; Each Peach Pear Plum; The One and Only Two Heads; Son of a Gun; The Little Worm Book; Two Wheels Two Heads; Funny Bones; A Pair of Sinners; Happy Families; Peepo ; The Ha Ha Bonk Book; Help Your Child to Read; Ten in a Bed; Please Mrs Butler; Daisy Chains; Yum Yum; Playmates; Foldaways; Woof; The Cinderella Show; The Jolly Postman; The Jolly Christmas Postman; The Jolly Pocket Postman; The Clothes Horse and Other Stories; The Mighty Slide; Starting School; Heard it in the Playground; The Bear Nobody Wanted; It was a Dark and Stormy Night; The Giant Baby; Baby Sleeps; Blue Buggy; Doll and Teddy; See the Rabbit; Please Mrs Butler; The Better Brown Stories; The Boyhood of Burglar Bill

“Perfectly tuned for a first-book experience.”—Booklist Peek-a-boo, I see you! Baby peeks through holes cut in sturdy board book pages. The perfect way for very young children to play along with the classic game of peek-a-boo!

Derived from The Jolly Postman series of books, this CD-ROM has been developed with an educational consultant to cover a broad range of early learning development skills. It supports Key Stage 1 of the National Curriculum in a number of areas including Geography, Maths, Art and English, as the interactive activities enable children to help the Jolly Postman mend parcels, sort letters, calculate postage and send postcards overseas. A stationery section is included, allowing the user to design, customise and print cards, stamps and notes, and there is a connection to the Internet, where stamps created by users of the disc worldwide can be collected.

While on his rounds, the Postman gets knocked on the head with a giant rattle which gives him a dream that sends him down a rabbit hole to meet Alice and then onto Oz to meet Dorothy.

Antonio, a small boy who has been kidnapped by brigands, passes the dark and stormy night in thier cave weaving incredible stories for their own exploits - and solves his own problem of how to escape.

A teddy bear with a rather inflated opinion of himself has a series of not-always-pleasant adventures before finding a real home.

An enchanting picture book in which children can find out exactly what going to school entails - a must for calming anxieties and firing enthusiasm in all pre-school children.

SUMMARY: A band of thieves are captured by the police after they pull off a series of thefts on Christmas Eve.

From the popular The Baby''s Catalogue, these four board books feature activities and surroundings in a baby''s world. With babies'' and toddlers'' keen interest in other babies and object identification, The Baby''s Catalogue board books are the perfect beginning books for the very youngest readers. In Baby Sleeps, baby''s daily activities are presented: baby wakes, drinks, thinks, bounces, and finally falls asleep. Full color.

Three skeletons--a grownup, a child, and a dog--take a walk at night through a dark town.

When Thomas Tull is seven years old, he stops growing and begins shrinking and shrinking and shrinking.

A collection of humorous riddles, cartoon strips, and poems featuring the Bogies, Little Mo and her Magic Pencil, Bully Bertha, and others.