Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet Ahlberg, Allan Ahlberg (Paperback, 2008) Pocket-Sized

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She won the 1978 Kate Greenaway Medal from the British Library Association - an award recognizing the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject - for Each Peach Pear Plum. And when you have to read the same books over and over again to a young audience, it's one of the few that I never get tired of re-reading! Allan Ahlberg has published over 100 children's books and with his late wife Janet, created such award-winning children's picture books, including Peepo!

Beautiful vignettes roll exquisitely across village, vale and wood through the Ahlberg’s perfect balance between image and verse. The text incorporates famous fictional characters - Cinderella, Mother Hubbard, the Wicked Witch, Robin Hood, Jack and Jill etc. Full of colourful illustrations, this interactive board book is the ideal gift for babies and toddlers that the whole family can enjoy reading together. First, I read this to my child, pausing before pointing out the next character, who would be hiding in the picture somewhere.Tricky for younger readers perhaps, but in my experience they always find plenty of things to point to in the illustrations to ask "what's that?

You’ll also be able to utilize my library for looking up titles to see whether the book you’re thinking about reading next has any objectionable content or not.One of the first books I've bought for my son - the illustrations are very detailed and charming, while I like the board book version, as there's less chance of it being ripped by an over-enthusiastic baby!