Best Selling Books by Janet Ahlberg

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

This wonderfully warm and humorous book will put any preschooler''s jitters to rest. "The first four months of school for eight first graders are chronicled in wonderful watercolor detail. . . . Numerous pictures show the small school obstacles that each five-year-old must overcome".--School Library Journal.

A collection of letters from famous fairy-tale characters features an apology from Goldilocks to the Three Bears, an advertisement for the Wicked Witch from Hobgoblin Supplies Ltd., and other correspondence delivered by the Jolly Postman.

Laughter guaranteed with The Ha Ha Bonk Book by Janet and Allan Ahlberg - jam-packed with brilliant jokes to tell your dad, your mum, your baby brother, your teacher and anybody else you can think of, such as: What goes ha ha bonk? A man laughing his head off. and What goes 99 bonk? A centipede with a wooden leg and What goes putt, putt, putt, putt, putt, putt, putt, putt? A bad golfer and lots more besides! This is an all-time classic favourite joke book for all the family to enjoy. Allan Ahlberg - a former teacher, postman, plumber''s mate and gravedigger - is in the super-league of children''s writers with sales exceeding 17 million and library borrowings of 13 million. In collaboration with his late wife, Janet, he has published many enduring titles, among them Each Peach Pear Plum, Peepo!, Burglar Bill and The Jolly Postman. In addition he has written novels, collections of stories, sets of easy-readers and joke books.

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.

Antonio is captured by six brigands and is forced to tell them stories.

Burglar Bill decides to change his way after he becomes a victim of burglary.

It''s Christmas Eve and the Jolly Postman is delivering greetings to various fairy-tale characters - there''s a card for baby bear, a get well jigsaw for hospitalized Humpty Dumpty and four more surprise envelopes containing letters and cards.

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

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.

Rhymed text and illustrations invite the reader to play "I Spy" with a variety of Mother Goose and other folklore characters.