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Find out moreIt Was a Dark and Stormy Night is an exciting picture book by the iconic British husband and wife picture book team Janet and Allan Ahlberg, creators of Peepo! Perfect as a bedtime story and for children learning to read! It was a dark and stormy night, the rain came down in torrents, there were brigands on the mountains, and wolves, and the chief of the brigands said to Antonio, I'm bored - tell us a story! No one tells a better story than Antonio. His tale is full of action and absurdity, pirates, parrots and chocolate carnival cake, rubies, emeralds, diamonds of enormous size...and a Thingy. Antonio just makes it up as he goes along. And he begins It was a dark and stormy night... Janet and Allan Ahlberg are to children's books what Fred and Ginger were to dancing . ( Guardian ). Allan Ahlberg has published over 100 children's books and with his late wife Janet, created many award-winning children's picture books, including Chicken, Chips and Peas , Funnybones , Each Peach Pear Plum and the Kate Greenaway Medal winning The Jolly Postman .
ISBN: | 9780140545869 |
Publication date: | 6th October 1994 |
Author: | Allan Ahlberg |
Illustrator: | Janet Ahlberg |
Publisher: | Puffin Books an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
Format: | Paperback / softback |
Pagination: | 32 pages |
Allan Ahlberg, former teacher, postman, plumber's mate and gravedigger, is in the super-league of children's writers. He has published over a hundred children's books and is the author of the prize-winning Each Peach Pear Plum and The Jolly Postman. He has also written prize-winning fiction and poems for older readers. Allan lives in Bath.
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