Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Collected Poems	Allan Ahlberg	Allan Ahlberg's five poetry books, written over a period of twenty-five years – Please Mrs Butler, Heard it in the Playground, Friendly Matches, The Mighty Slide and The Mysteries of Zigomar – have d…	OL15176677W
Everybody was a baby once	Allan Ahlberg	Meet witches, snowmen, lizards and favourite nursery-rhyme characters in this joyful poetry collection for infants of every age!	OL15470180W
The Bucket	Allan Ahlberg	In 1938 Allan Ahlberg was picked up in London by his new adoptive mother and taken back to Oldbury in the Black Country. Now one of the most successful children's book writers in the world, here Alla…	OL19363483W
The adventures of Bert	Allan Ahlberg	A clumsy Englishman tries to dress himself and ends up in Scotland, is chased by a giant sausage, and saves a dog from drowning even though he cannot swim.	OL1971476W
The Better Brown Stories	Allan Ahlberg	Unhappy with the stories that are shaping their lives, the members of the Brown family go to see the writer responsible.	OL1971482W
A bit more Bert	Allan Ahlberg	Bert receives a disastrous haircut, loses his dog, and discovers that there are many other Berts in the world.	OL1971485W
Fee fi fo fum	Allan Ahlberg	Simple text and illustrations demonstrate in brief vignettes such concepts as cause and effect, adding, parts of a whole, opposites, and the meaning of words.	OL1971513W
Half a pig	Allan Ahlberg	Esmeralda the pig is jointly owned by kindly Mrs. Harbottle and her nasty ex-husband Mr. Harbottle who wants to turn Esmeralda into sausages.	OL1971524W
The Mighty Slide	Allan Ahlberg	‘This is the story Of Alison Hubble, Who went to bed single, And woke up double.’ Here, in verse, are the hilariously original stories of a mighty slide, a man who fought crocodiles, a gi…	OL1971556W
Mr Biff the Boxer	Allan Ahlberg	Billy and Betty Biff toughen up their dad for his big charity fight against the very fit Mr. Bop.	OL1971567W
My Brother's Ghost	Allan Ahlberg	Frances Foggarty, now in her fifties, remembers her childhood.. When she was nine her ten-year-old brother, Tom, was hit by a milk-float and killed. He returns after the funeral and Frances's story i…	OL1971583W
One, Two, Fea! (Read and Share)	Allan Ahlberg	"Red Nose Readers are the very simplest first readers - and the funniest!"--Back cover.	OL1971587W
The pencil	Allan Ahlberg	A lonely pencil timidly draws a boy, a dog, and other items but soon faces a problem as his creations begin demanding changes, and when he draws an eraser to make them happy, the real trouble begins.	OL1971590W
Previously	Allan Ahlberg	The adventures of various nursery rhyme and fairy tale characters are retold in backward sequence with each tale interrelated to the other. Includes Goldilocks, Jack and the beanstalk, Jack and Jill,…	OL1971596W
The runaway dinner	Allan Ahlberg,Bruce Ingman	A young boy named Banjo Cannon always eats a sausage for dinner, until the night that his sausage--and the rest of his meal--runs away.	OL1971601W
Tell Us a Story (Reading Time)	Allan Ahlberg	Two little boys want their father to tell them a story.	OL1971612W
Bravest ever bear	Allan Ahlberg	Fairy tale characters tell their stories from their own perspective, with new endings, and find themselves encountering each other as their stories overlap.	OL1971632W
Jumping	Allan Ahlberg	[32]p	OL1971642W
Meow!	Allan Ahlberg	While Clara waits for her little cat Jack to come home, so many visitors come through the cat door that she decides to have a party.	OL1971648W
Monkey do!	Allan Ahlberg	An adventurous little monkey who escapes from the zoo and spends the day meeting new friends in the outside world begins to miss his mom when evening comes.	OL1971653W