Most Popular Books by Allan Ahlberg

Imagine getting so very, very small that you could leave your house by a crack under the door and live, for a while, in your very own, private snail house. Imagine a tigerish bird, raindrops like sacks of water, an apple the size of a huge bomb. Imagine the adventures you might have... Now picture yourself on the verandah one warm summer''s evening, with Michael, Hannah and the baby, as Grandma begins her story...

Fast Fox is determined to have chicken for his supper. Mother Hen and her three chickens are looking for corn for their''s. Fast Fox follows the chickens and they follow his corn trail right into his supper sack! As Fast Fox hurries home, things lookbad for the chickens but Slow Dog saves the day by falling from his hammock and squashing fast Fox flat! The chicks eat Fast Fox''s corn, Slow Dog gets a biscuit from Mother Hen and Fast Fox has a miserable meal of chips and peas.

Illustrated by Joe Wright

Take one clever little monkey with a key to his cage and what do you get? A day of madcap mischief as he scales a giraffe''s neck to escape the zoo and bursts into the bustling world beyond the gates--where people do the most interesting things! Full color.

Mr. Buzz, his family, and all the neighbors chase a swarm of uncooperative bees through the countryside.

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

Sick of socks and sheets and undershirts, the Lathers decide that in future they will wash anything except laundry.

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

The big skeleton and the little skeleton get fed up with the dog skeleton and decide to swop him at the pet shop. They start off with a goldfish but soon get tired of him and swop him for a parrot until they get bored with him, and so it goes on. Eventually the pet shop owner gives them a box to take home with a surprise pet inside which of course turns out to be none other than their old friend the dog skeleton.

Familiar, everyday objects such as a bottle, pajamas, and pets are identifiedfor baby. Full color.

From the team who created Monkey Do comes this lift-the-cat-flap rhyming story - each time Clara hears a noise at the back door she thinks it''s her cat, but discovers all sorts of visitors instead

Jeremiah lives in the Dark Woods with his grandma, who is brave enough to fight off crocodiles with her bare hands and her handbag. But her legs aren''t so good, so when her jam tarts are stolen she sends Jeremiah into the woods to find the culprit.

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