The Jolly Christmas Postman Award-winning team by Allan Ahlberg (author) and Janet Ahlberg (author) (UK edition)

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Suitable for 5 – 6 years

Format: Hardback
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A special edition of this classic picture book to celebrate its 30th anniversary – with festive foil on the cover!

The award-winning Jolly Christmas Postman is the ultimate children’s picture book. There should be a copy beneath every Christmas tree in every house with young children!

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 gifts.

Allan Ahlberg has published over 100 children’s books and with his late wife Janet, created many award-winning children’s picture books, including It Was a Dark and Stormy Night, Funnybones, Each Peach Pear Plum and Peepo! The Jolly Christmas Postman is the seasonal sequel of, the Kate Greenaway Medal winning, The Jolly Postman which, after 35 years, remains one of the most innovative and interactive children’s books available.

Not suitable for children under 3 years of age. Small parts.

Product Details

Catalogue number

117 in ISBC Global November 2025

Format

Hardback

ISBN

9780141340111

Lexile measure

Other details

52 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

Author/Illustrator

Allan Ahlberg

Allan has been delighting children of all ages for more than thirty years. Classic characters like Burglar Bill and The Jolly Postman have become firm favourites with a generation of children who are now reading them to their own offspring. Innovative, funny and moving, his work encompasses storybooks, picture books, easy readers, joke books and novels as well as poems.

Many of his books were collaborations with his wife, Janet, an illustrator, and they quickly became one of Britain’s leading author/illustrator teams.

Influenced by comics and cartoons, their perfect partnership went on to produce masterpieces including Peepo!, Each Peach Pear Plum and The Baby’s Catalogue.

Janet sadly died in 1994, but Allan has gone on to work with other illustrators and is still producing lots of new books.

Activities & resources

Ahlberg Counting Poster (1 page)

Reviews

Diane
on 29 November 2012

The jolly christmas postman

This fantastic book has been shared and enjoyed for many years in our family! Our grownup children remember it from their childhood and a couple of years ago we got a new copy for our grandchild. We have recently bought another copy for our great nephew! We are so looking forward to seeing his delight when he looks inside.
Five stars!!!

5 out of 5
hazel
on 29 November 2011

the jolly christmas postman

This is an amazing book as a family we bought this and the other postman titles when they were first published and now the family has grown up and we are enjoying it all over again buying for nephews nieces and friends children letting them share the magic and revisiting it ourselves

5 out of 5