Allan Ahlberg

To celebrate the Coronation in 1953, a West Midlands town organised a junior football tournament. When Allan Ahlberg and his friends were excluded from a school team they created their own team and entered the competition. This is the story of their progress - on the field and off!

The next audio collection from Allan Ahlberg stars more of his best loved characters, including Master Salt the Sailor's Son, Ms Cliff the Climber and Mrs Plug the Plumber. Features 9 classic stories brought to life with music and dazzling sound effects.

This is an unusual ghost story where Frances, now an old lady, tells the story of her childhood.

This witty collection of school poems by Allan Ahlberg, has a cover refresh for a whole new generation of school children to take to its heart. It is full of typical classroom events that will be recognized and enjoyed by everyone - from never-ending projects, reading tests, quarrels, making-up, excuses and 'Please, Sir, it isn't fair', Please Mrs Butler accurately portrays everyday primary school life.

Ten-year-old Eric's life is dramatically changed when he is transformed into a playful Norfolk terrier!

Allan Ahlberg was adopted as a baby. In 1938 he was picked up in London by his new mother and taken back to Oldbury in the Black Country. Here he describes an oddly enchanted childhood lived out in an industrial town during the 1940s, in conditions which today we might describe as 'deprived'.