London According to the Associated Press, Allan Ahlberg, the celebrated British author of over 150 well-known children’s books, such as Each Peach Pear Plum, Peepo!, and The Jolly Postman, passed away at the age of 87.
Ahlberg started writing in the 1970s after working as a teacher and doing odd jobs like gravedigging and postman, according to his obituary on The Guardian website. He initially collaborated on picture-book masterpieces with his wife, Janet, an illustrator who had won numerous awards.
Before she passed away from breast cancer in 1994, their creative partnership generated 37 titles. In order to add more than 100 pieces to his portfolio, he continued to write after that, frequently collaborating with his daughter Jessica and other illustrators like Bruce Ingman and Raymond Briggs. According to his obituary and The Bookseller, those featured a pop-up rendition of Goldilocks and Half a Pig.
His best-known books were Peepo!, which gave a baby’s perspective of everyday life through peek-through pages, and The Jolly Postman, which featured actual letters and postcards tucked into envelopes inside the book—a structure that the AP deemed revolutionary in children’s publishing. The Guardian claims that he received considerable praise for his use of rhyme, humor, and a child-centered viewpoint.
Other works by Ahlberg include Cops and Robbers, a rhyme about clumsy criminals; Funnybones, a creepy but humorous narrative about three skeletons; and Burglar Bill, about a thief whose life changes after an accidental mix-up with a baby.
The Pencil (2008), a story co-written with Ingman about a magical pencil that gives its drawings life, is one of Ahlberg’s later works.
According to AP, Ahlberg’s publisher characterized his stories as timeless miniature masterpieces that will enchant kids and families for many years to come.
His daughter Jessica, two stepdaughters, and his second wife, Vanessa Clarke, survive him.
Few occupations and interests are as genuinely significant as writing children’s books, according to Marc Bona, a writer for The Plain Dealer and cleveland.com. Early reading instills important habits in children. Children require a unique type of book to connect with them, and Ahlberg aptly encapsulated that enchantment.
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