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14%OFFAllan Ahlberg - The Boyhood of Burglar Bill - 9780141321424 - V9780141321424
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The Boyhood of Burglar Bill

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Description for The Boyhood of Burglar Bill Paperback. Archie was a wonder dog in all our eyes. Nearly a year ago he had got run over. They found his foot in the street but the rest of him ran off. Mr Purnell mourned for a while; Mrs Purnell offered to beat the motorcyclist up or at least wreck his bike. Then, lo and behold, a fortnight later back came Archie. Coronation year, 1953. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 5AH; YFB. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 233 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 142.

Allan Ahlberg's The Boyhood of Burglar Bill is a nostalgic, autobiographical story about football, schooldays and growing-up in the '50s. Allan Ahlberg is the internationally bestselling author of children's classics that include Peepo! and Each Peach, Pear Plum, illustrated by Janet Ahlberg.

Archie was a wonder dog in all our eyes. Nearly a year ago he had got run over. They found his foot in the street but the rest of him ran off. Mr Purnell mourned for a while; Mrs Purnell offered to beat the motorcyclist up or at least wreck his bike. Then, lo and behold, a ... Read moreCoronation year, 1953. The boys from the bottom pitch - a great soup of boys - play football. When the 'Coronation Cup' is proposed, they put their heads together, pool their pocket money and get a team up. There's no chance they'll win of course. They're just the odds and sods in Mr Cork's opinion. Besides, he'd go berserk if they did; menace them with his one good arm and pulverise their desks with his cricket stump. They'd be better off losing.

The Boyhood of Burglar Bill is the second in a sequence of stories in which Allan Ahlberg explores his own childhood. My Brother's Ghost, shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, was the first.
Allan Ahlberg has published books for children of all ages from the picture books Peepo!, Each Peach, Pear, Plum, The Jolly Postman and the Funnybones series - illustrated by Janet Ahlberg - to his books for older readers including Woof! and his books of verse: Please Mrs. Butler and Heard it in the Playground.

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Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Random House Children´s UK United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141321424
SKU
V9780141321424
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-33

About Allan Ahlberg
Allan Ahlberg, former teacher, postman, plumber's mate and gravedigger, is in the super-league of children's writers. He has published over a hundred children's books and is the author of the prize-winning Each Peach Pear Plum and The Jolly Postman. He has also written prize-winning fiction and poems for older readers. Allan lives in Bath.

Reviews for The Boyhood of Burglar Bill
An exceptional piece of writing . . . comic, poignant and true. Anyone will be enriched by reading it
Sunday Times
Affectionately downbeat . . . this artfully informal story has something for everyone
Nicholas Tucker
Independent
This is simply great writing, for boys or anyone else
Brandon Robshaw
Independent
Affectionately downbeat ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Boyhood of Burglar Bill


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