Heard It in the Playground Award-winning by Allan Ahlberg (author) and Fritz Wegner (illustrator)

Shed a tear for The Boy Without A Name, discover the secrets to teachers (they NEVER leave the school!?) and try to solve the riddles of The Answer. Packed with rhythmic poetry and playful songs, this timeless collection has delighted children for generations.

‘Every desk should hide a copy; every staff room own one’ – The Observer

Discover more school stories from Alan Ahlberg: Starting School Please Mrs Bultler

Product Details

Catalogue number

1759 in Education Catalogue 2024/25

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780140328240

Publisher

Puffin

Date published

December 31st, 1994

Condition

New

Available in these packs

30copies
Heard It in the Playground x 30

Award-winning author

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Offer price: £191.00

Rewards/RRP: £239.70
6copies
Heard It in the Playground x 6

Award-winning author

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Offer price: £43.15

Rewards/RRP: £47.94
4books
Pie Corbett's Poetry Spine: Year 2 Pack x 4

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Offer price: £26.30

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Author/Illustrator

Allan Ahlberg

Allan has been delighting children of all ages for more than thirty years. Classic characters like Burglar Bill and The Jolly Postman have become firm favourites with a generation of children who are now reading them to their own offspring. Innovative, funny and moving, his work encompasses storybooks, picture books, easy readers, joke books and novels as well as poems.

Many of his books were collaborations with his wife, Janet, an illustrator, and they quickly became one of Britain’s leading author/illustrator teams. Read more