Allan Ahlberg

The Pencil (2008)

A delightful story that unravels before your eyes! Ahlberg and Ingman tell a beautiful story that begins with a simple mark made by a pencil, a pencil who creates a world around himself. This creatively silly children's book has a very well disguised undercurrent of real life; companionship, comp...

My Brother's Ghost (2001)

I read this book because I was looking through a box of postcards at a bookshop recently and there was one of the cover of this book. There was something about it that I liked, so I put it on hold at the library. It came in today and I picked it up and read it in one sitting. ( Well, it is a chi...

Burglar Bill (1999)

Please Mrs Butler (1984)

This is a very amusing and comical collection of poems, all centred around the on-goings of the classroom and the daily life at school. What makes these poems original is the way that they are written, in that they can appeal to children, teachers and parents. The poems are categorized into the f...

Woof! (1987)