Each letter may be removed from its envelope page and read separately." Awards Twelve of the pages have been made into six envelopes and contain eight letters and cards. WorldCat gives the entire description: "A Jolly Postman delivers letters to several famous fairy-tale characters such as the Big Bad Wolf, Cinderella, and the Three Bears. Each envelope is opened and its enclosure read at that point in the story. Following each sheet of narrative verse and illustration, there is one shaped like an envelope and containing one of the postman's deliveries.
The Jolly Postman follows an unnamed mail carrier as he delivers letters by bicycle to characters from traditional children's stories that are well known in Britain. The second book won the 1991 Greenaway Medal for British children's book illustration. In the U.K., the first book won the Red House Children's Book Award and the Kurt Maschler Award.
#THE JOLLY POSTMAN SERIES#
It made innovative use of envelopes to include letters, cards, games and a tiny book.Īlternatively, The Jolly Postman is a series of three books including 19 sequels to The Jolly Postman, or Other people's letters. The Jolly Postman has sold more than six million copies, Allan Ahlberg told The Guardian in 2006.
The first subject heading assigned by WorldCat is "Toy and movable books". The innovative project required five years to complete, and much discussion with both the publisher Heinemann and the printer before it was issued in 1986. The Jolly Postman or Other People's Letters is an interactive children's picture book by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. The Jolly Christmas Postman, The Jolly Pocket Postman
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