Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet Ahlberg, Allan Ahlberg (Paperback, 2008) Pocket-Sized

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Of the literally hundreds of times I have read this book to a child it has never bored me but has been an utter delight over and over again. Some of the best picture books have a similar structure, with repetition, rhyme, and rhythm as cues.

This lovely children's book is a fun, rhyming hide and seek game featuring favorite characters from storybooks. In Each Peach Pear Plum, Allan Ahlberg explores the darkest realms of fantasy, describing in ultra-minimalist style the dichotomy between good and evil. This much-loved rhyme lets children spot all their favourite nursery-rhyme characters in Janet Ahlberg’s charming, jewel-like pictures, which are packed with familiar details of domestic life.

S. it was published by Viking Press in 1979 as Each Peach Pear Plum: an "I Spy" story; the national library catalogue summary explains, "Rhymed text and illustrations invite the reader to play 'I spy' with a variety of Mother Goose and other folklore characters. Only when I belatedly noticed the bow of an apron on a rather large derrière in the corner did I realise that she was leaning out of the picture! It can be read to the whole class and followed by setting smaller group tasks and/or individual activities, using words, text and recognisable characters that feature in the book. a warm, sunny, delectable picture book' Brian Alderson, The TimesAllan Ahlberg has published over 100 children's books and with his late wife Janet, created many award-winning children's picture books. Each Peach Pear Plum / I spy Tom Thumb," the text begins, inviting the reader to find Tom Thumb in the artwork.

Allan and Ahlberg’s text is repetitious, rhyming, and predictable, making it a perfect choice for the emergent reader.

Each Peach Pear Plum is a work of genius' Elaine Moss'This familiar rhyme has been given the brilliant Ahlbreg treatment to which no young child can fail to respond. There is also Baby Bunting featured with the three bears out hunting, Bo-Peep surreptitiously watching Baby Bunting fast asleep, Jack and Jill with Bo-Peep up the hill looking for them and I guess you will quickly realise where that pair are and the Wicked Witch with Jack and Jill in the ditch. You’ll see my updates as I’m reading and know which books I’m liking and what I’m not finishing and why.