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

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Of the literally hundreds of times I have read this book to a child it has never bored me but has been an utter delight over and over again. Janet Ahlberg (1944-1994) was a British children's book illustrator, and the co-creator, together with her husband Allan Ahlberg, of the best-selling Jolly Postman series.

On each page there is a small rhyme about spying a character, who you then need to find in the illustration on the opposite page. The subject of the previous I-spy then launches the next - ie: "Tom Thumb in the cupboard / I spy Mother Hubbard" - with the process ongoing, until the natural (and very fun! The Ahlbergs' books are nursery bookshelf standards and have been the recipient of worldwide acclaim and awards, including the Kate Greenaway Medal. Every child must own this book, it has a great rhyming story, a chance to play eye spy on every page and beautiful illustrations with so much to look at.The text per page is also brief, which is great for short attention spans, though it is a slightly longer book than some; when my daughter was very little we would need to read it in stages. Innovative, funny and moving, his work encompasses storybooks, picture books, easy readers, joke books and novels as well as poems. With each review, I provide a Cleanliness Report, mentioning any objectionable content I come across so that parents and/or conscientious readers (like me) can determine beforehand whether they want to read a book or not. 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.

You’ll see my updates as I’m reading and know which books I’m liking and what I’m not finishing and why. with a more noticeable Mother Hubbard making a second appearance, and an arm with a feather duster gives away Cinders' hiding place; Three Bears with Cinderella still cleaning, this time on the stairs, and the bears are not in the room but can be seen so can you guess where they are?

This rhyming pattern makes it easy enough for even three-year-olds to predict, but will engage readers probably to about age five. The overleaf shows an abundant pear tree, a plum tree, and a peach tree, and tiny Tom Thumb snugly resting on a branch, reading a book. They are familiar characters; the three bears, Cinderella, Robin Hood, etc, so it ties in nicely with traditional bedtime stories. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Each Peach Pear Plum is a timeless picture book classic from the bestselling illustrator/author team Janet and Allan Ahlberg, creators of Peepo!

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Wonderful little story, a true classic but I do find that the quality of the cardboard has somehow gone down hill and don’t really see it surviving too many reads.And so it goes, through favourite English nursery rhymes and stories (Robin Hood, Cinderella, wicked witch, 3 bears) till everyone meets in the woods for plum pie in the sun. And furthermore, with slightly older children, parents, caregivers, librarians could and should also consider using the illustrations of Each Peach Pear Plum for independent oral storytelling activities and practice, for encouraging youngsters to create, to make up their own descriptively fun tales and anecdotes about Tom Thumb, Cinderella and the other nursery rhyme and folklore characters mentioned and depicted (illustrated). Each Peach Pear Plum commences with the following two lines: “Each Peach Pear Plum, I spy Tom Thumb.