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The Baby's Catalogue

By Allan Ahlberg
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The Baby's Catalogue by Allan Ahlberg is a delightful picture book that offers a charming and humorous glimpse into the everyday world of babies and toddlers. Through a series of endearing illustrations, it captures the familiar sights, sounds, and routines that make up a baby's day, appealing to both young children and their parents with its warmth and recognition of daily life.
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This delightful picture book offers a charming glimpse into the everyday items and activities that fill a baby's world, making it perfect for young children. You might enjoy this book if you appreciate engaging illustrations and simple text that capture the curiosity of little ones, allowing them to explore familiar objects and scenes. It's a warm and playful read that invites young readers and their parents to discover the wonders of daily life together.

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The Baby's Catalogue

Suitable for your babies or toddlers, this title fills with easily recognizable objects.

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A cased board book edition of this bestselling classic picture book by children's book royalty, Janet and Allan Ahlberg.

Mums and Dads, breakfasts and bedtimes, pets and toys and prams and swings - and lots and lots of other fascinating things!

This charmingly illustrated and funny book presents a vast array of baby paraphernalia and has captivated generations of very young children.

The Baby's Catalogue by Allan Ahlberg is a delightful exploration of the everyday life and objects in the world of a baby, perfectly crafted to engage the youngest of readers.

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The Baby's Catalogue by Allan Ahlberg is praised for being part of a venerable tradition in children's literature, placing the Ahlbergs alongside renowned authors like A.A. Milne and Lewis Carroll. The ingenuity and impact of their work are highlighted as shaping an era in children's storytelling.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780141343365

Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK

Format: Board book

Date Published: 02 June 2005

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Puffin

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Janet Ahlberg
  • Illustrated by Janet Ahlberg
  • Illustrated by Janet Ahlberg

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 190.0mm

Height: 205.0mm

Weight: 428g

Pages: 34

Collections

Allan Ahlberg Children's Board Books Children's Books Children's Picture Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational Penguin Books

About the Author

Allan Ahlberg, a former teacher, postman, plumber's mate and grave digger, is in the super-league of children's writers. He has published over 100 children's books and, with his late wife Janet, created such award winning picture books as EACH PEACH PEAR PLUM and THE JOLLY POSTMAN - both winners of the Kate Greenaway Medal. He has also written prize-winning poetry and fiction and lives in Bath. Janet Ahlberg, along with Allan Ahlberg, created some of the world's most popular picture books, including EACH PEACH PEAR PLUM and THE JOLLY CHRISTMAS POSTMAN, both winners of Greenaway Medals, and THE BABY'S CATALOGUE, inspired by their daughter Jessica. Janet died in 1994.

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