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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Product description

Discover the magical Christmas story that has delighted children for generations!

The Jolly Postman has a busy day ahead. It’s Christmas Eve in Fairy-Tale Land and there’s plenty of post for him to deliver!

There’s a card for Baby Bear, a get-well jigsaw for Humpty Dumpty and even something for Red Riding Hood. But, can he deliver it all before Christmas?

Little hands will love opening the envelopes to read the post in this magical story, full of festive, fairy tale surprises!

Praise for The Jolly Christmas Postman:

Incorporating “The Jolly Christmas Postman” into our Christmas Book advent was a stroke of holiday magic for my family. This charming book, filled with interactive elements and familiar characters, brought joy and wonder to our festive season – 5 star reader review

Gorgeous book with envelopes inside containing little extras. Daughter still loves this book. Very charming. All kids should have a copy – 5 star reader review

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Product Details

Catalogue number

117 in ISBC Global November 2025

Format

Hardback

ISBN

9780141340111

Publisher

Puffin

Date published

October 2nd, 2014

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