Coronation Year, 1953, and in Oldbury a Coronation football competition is organized. The boys from the bottom pitch get a team up, but there's no chance they'll win, of course. They're just the odds and sods -- one of them is even a girl -- but they're all football crazy and ready and eager to beat
Boyhood of Burglar Bill
โ Scribed by Ahlberg, Allan
- Book ID
- 108863219
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780141913537
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โฆ Synopsis
Overview: Allan Ahlberg, a former teacher, postman, plumber's mate and grave digger, is in the super-league of children's writers. He has published over 100 children's books and, with his late wife Janet, created such award-winning picture books as EACH PEACH PEAR PLUM and THE JOLLY CHRISTMAS POSTMAN - both winners of the Greenaway Medal. He has also written prize-winning poetry and fiction for older readers.
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Coronation Year, 1953, and in Oldbury a Coronation football competition is organized. The boys from the bottom pitch get a team up, but there's no chance they'll win, of course. They're just the odds and sods -- one of them is even a girl -- but they're all football crazy and ready and eager to beat
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