Mr and Mrs Hay are a horse! Every day they climb into their horse suit (she’s the back, he’s the front) and perform at the circus. But as their children Henry and Henrietta grow up, their galloping parents begin to embarrass them… A classic comic story of family life for beginner readers, written by much-loved author Allan Ahlberg.

Product Details

Series

Happy Families

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780140312478

Lexile measure

500L Lexiles are the global standard in reading assessment. They are unique as they are able to measure a child and a book on the same scale – ensuring the right book gets to the right child at the right time.

For more details see What is a lexile?.

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 2.8; Lower years; 0.5 points

Other details

24 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

Series

Happy Families

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.

Influenced by comics and cartoons, their perfect partnership went on to produce masterpieces including Peepo!, Each Peach Pear Plum and The Baby’s Catalogue.

Janet sadly died in 1994, but Allan has gone on to work with other illustrators and is still producing lots of new books.