“Once upon a bicycle, so they say, a Jolly Postman came one day.” So begins this children’s classic, and so begins our hero’s morning round, which sees him drinking industrially British quantities of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This year marks 40 years since the publication of ‘The Jolly Postman’ by Janet and Allan Ahlberg (Puffin) “Once upon a bicycle, so ...

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There are children’s books. And then there’s The Jolly Postman. Janet and Allan Ahlberg’s enchanting Eighties tale of a postman cheerily delivering letters to a village of fairytale characters – tiny ...