The Jolly Pocket Postman: The interactive pocket-sized adventure

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The Jolly Postman - Wikipedia

with six pockets - the first has a card from the Ahlbergs welcoming the reader to the book and also contains a little magnifying lens. It’s definitely one of my favorite series to read and gift the children in my family and friend group! Discover the magic of letters with this much-loved rhyming tale, which has delighted readers for generations. Literacy learning outreach programme – includes museum visits or virtual sessions for Reception and KS1.

Use these to encourage your students to be creative and draw inspiration from this brilliant children's book. Included in the collection are colouring pages that have been hand-drawn by our talented illustrators.

The Jolly Pocket Postman by Allan Ahlberg | BIG W The Jolly Pocket Postman by Allan Ahlberg | BIG W

Janet Ahlberg was a commended runner up for the 1986 Greenaway Medal [7] [b] and she won the 1991 Greenaway for the sequel. This brilliant teacher-made set of 'The Jolly Postman' resources is designed to save you time and make planning lessons easier. Small quarto hardback colour illustrated (all letters are present in their respective envelopes including the magnifying glass). A Jolly Postman delivers Christmas cards to several famous fairy-tale characters such as the Big Bad Wolf, Cinderella, and the Three Bears. This book follows the Postman on his rounds and cleverly introduces characters from both fairy tales and nursery rhymes.I'm a great admirer of Janet Ahlberg, who wrote one of my favorite children's books (that's also remarkably difficult to find in the U. She won the 1978 Kate Greenaway Medal from the British Library Association - an award recognizing the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject - for Each Peach Pear Plum. The Ahlbergs won two major British book awards for The Jolly Postman, the 1986 Kurt Maschler Award [4] and 1987 Red House Children's Book Award. Additionally, we also have some great 'The Jolly Postman' activities and games so that you can make your lesson interactive. It could be in the book corner where children could either read it or just enjoy the pictures and hands-on nature of it.

The Jolly Postman (Reception/KS1) - The Postal Museum The Jolly Postman (Reception/KS1) - The Postal Museum

This book could be used in literacy when teaching children about poetry or rhyming as the whole story uses rhyming words. The story of The Jolly Pocket Postman is a sweet book about a postman and the varies antics that he gets up to. A wonderful selection of 'The Jolly Postman' resources with everything you need to support your teaching on this lovely children's book. The book also contains wonderful and beautifully illustrated resources, rich vocabulary and the whole story rhymes which I really enjoyed. Packed with all of your favourite fairytale characters, The Jolly Pocket Postman books have delighted young readers for generations.He has a letter of apology for the three bears from Goldilocks, a postcard from Jack for the giant, a solicitor’s letter on behalf of Little Red Riding-Hood for the wolf who ate grandma, and so on. this interactive book is beautifully illustrated and littered with well know fairy tale characters that children will have heard of. The Jolly Pocket Postman was one of my favorite books as a child, and having revisited it I will definitely be using it in the classroom.

The Jolly Pocket Postman - Penguin Books UK

Due to the fact that there are lots of additional parts to the book which may get lost, it may be better suited to a class reading activity, although it could be read by the children to the class as opposed to the teacher reading. For example, this Jolly Postman Roleplay Activityis a great way to get your students thinking about the characters from the story. The Jolly Pocket Postman incorporates other stories, like Alice and Wonderland and Little red riding hood, The Wizard of Oz, The gingerbread man and Rapunzel. Because I loved the other two Jolly Postman books so much, I felt that I should read the final book in the set. 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 annual award by the Library Association then recognised the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject. Everyone's favorite postman finds himself in Alice's Wonderland, knee-high to a Mad Hatter, but nothing can stop the Jolly Postman from completing his mail route as he travels through the Emerald City with Dorothy and other fairy-tale favorites. Whilst the story itself is enjoyable, the best aspect of this book is that there are envelopes throughout the book that contain extra parts of the story, such as letters, postcards, a telegram, and a magnifying glass to read the small print. Whilst it is true that even the youngest of readers should be exposed to rich vocabulary, I personally would avoid reading it with readers younger than five, simply owing to its length.