What can you hear in the playground? Shrieks? Whispers? Rumours? Secrets? Jokes? Well – everything you might hear in a playground, or anywhere in a primary school, is captured in these funny rhymes by the author of Please Mrs Butler. Not only was Allan Ahlberg a kid at school; he later became a teacher at a primary school. So if he doesn’t know school life, nobody does! Open up to chortle at the Teacher’s Prayer, the First Day Back poem, an Assembly poem, a Hide-and-Seek poem and loads more. You’ll even get to sing the Mrs Butler Blues! Yes, the world’s favourite frazzled teacher is back!

Witty school poems by the author of Please Mrs Butler

Allan Ahlberg is a celebrated legend of children’s fiction

His books include Peepo!, Burglar Bill and The Jolly Postman

This book of verse won the Signal Poetry Award in 1990

Product Details

Catalogue number

5673 in Rewards Catalogue 2019/20

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780140328240

Publisher

Puffin

Date published

December 31st, 1994

Condition

New

UK edition

Available in these packs

Heard It in the Playground x 30

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Price: €239.00

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Price: £179.70
Heard It in the Playground x 6

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Price: €47.80

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Price: £35.94
Pie Corbett's Poetry Spine: Year 2 Pack x 4

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Price: €35.86

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Price: £26.96

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.