Each peach pear plum : an "I spy" story

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Book

Title:

Each peach pear plum : an "I spy" story

Author:

Ahlberg, Janet.

ISBN:

9780670287055

Edition:

[1st American ed.].

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Physical Description:

32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 20 x 25 cm.

Series title(s):

I spy books.

Summary:

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

Subject(s):

Stories in rhyme -- Juvenile fiction.

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Library	Call Number	Status
Searching... Sheridan Public Library	J Blue (Ahlberg)	Searching... Unknown
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Searching... Newberg Public Library	RHYTHM AHLBERG	Searching... Unknown
Searching... Salem Main Library	JP Ahlberg	Searching... Unknown

In this book with your little eye, take a look and play I spy - so starts the classic story from best-selling author/illustrator team, Janet and Allan Ahlberg. Each Peach Pear Plum introduces favourite fairy tale characters, such as Tom Thumb and The Three Bears and, with a poem on each page hinting as to what is hiding in the picture, children are encouraged to participate and follow the story themselves.

Author Notes

Allan Ahlberg was born in 1938 in South London, and grew up in the Black Country. He worked as a teacher, postman, grave digger, soldier and plumber's mate before he became a full-time writer.

He met his wife and creative partner, Janet at teacher training college. It was because Janet wanted to illustrate a book that Allan wrote his first book, the Brick Street boys. After that, together they wrote 37 books.

Janet died in 1994 and Ahlberg discontinued his writing career for a few years before picking it up again.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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Kirkus Review

The Ahlberg penchant for playing with nursery characters (Jeremiah in the Dark Woods, 1978) has issue this time in a more traditional, pastoral-pretty nursery book. ""Each Peach Pear Plum/ I spy Tom Thumb,"" reads the first couplet (of what was originally a counting-out rhyme), while opposite Tom sits half-hidden in a tree; ""Tom Thumb in the cupboard/ I spy Mother Hubbard"" shows him in plain sight and--look sharp!--only her posterior, looming in the picture's corner. And so it goes, with a new character named--and cleverly half-concealed--at each of the openings. Youngsters will enjoy spying them out and appreciate their comical faces until at the finale--""Plum Pie in the sun/ I spy. . . EVERYONE!""--they all spring out from concealment and sit down to a picnic feast. Once you've seen it, true, there are no surprises but, for the very young, there's another sort of satisfaction from knowing what's coming next. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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