WorldCat gives the entire description: "A Jolly Postman delivers letters to several famous fairy-tale characters such as the Big Bad Wolf, Cinderella, and the Three Bears. Our wonderful The Jolly Christmas Postman activities for KS1 are a lovely set of materials that you can use to help support your teaching of the iconic Christmas story. For example, children will be able to practice their handwriting abilities with our wonderful pencil control worksheets and writing frames. With so many ideas to choose from for each topic, you can take your lessons in any direction you like. Following each sheet of narrative verse and illustration, there is one shaped like an envelope and containing one of the postman's deliveries.

This is a brilliant way for children to practise their writing skills and test their reading comprehension. Our jolly postman planning EYFS pack includes lesson plans and supporting resources to help you to form a complete unit of lessons based around our Jolly Christmas Postman eBook. You’ll find them perfect for adding some festive fun to your lessons in the build-up to the Christmas holidays, too! Janet Ahlberg, along with Allan Ahlberg, created some of the world's most popular picture books, including EACH PEACH PEAR PLUM and THE JOLLY CHRISTMAS POSTMAN, both winners of Greenaway Medals, and THE BABY'S CATALOGUE, inspired by their daughter Jessica. Whilst making innovative use of envelopes, cards, and letters to create a game in just a tiny book, The Jolly Christman Postman has sold over 6 million copies.

These resources all relate to The Jolly Christmas Postman story, so that children can carry on living the tale through these fantastic resources. I've checked the resource here and it's downloading properly for me - I'll send it over to you now so you'll be able to access it right away.

On a big piece of paper children could draw a map with the postman’s route and the places he visits. 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. It tells the tale of a postman delivering his Christmas post, along the way he encounters classic children’s story characters such as “Mr. Such a simple idea of a postman delivering letter to various classic fairytale characters but with the added bonus of various surprises in each envelope. Brilliant resource but it is not editable - my SEN pupils are 16 and 17 years old so I'd like to edit the addresses on the letters to pop stars or Angry Birds just something age appropriate to go with the stage appropriate resources.The resources and presents in the letters are wonderful; jigsaw, board games and a pop up Christmas cards all which children can complete themselves. The storybook uses pull-out letters and cards to make the tale as exciting and interactive as possible.

If you’re looking to set the scene, for your Jolly Christmas Postman EYFS learning experience, we've got a range of eye-catching display materials which have been hand-drawn by our talented team of illustrators.This book would be a great follow on to the teaching of traditional tales in Key Stage One as it shows what might have happened to these characters e. Chris Riddell was the highly commended runner up and the Medal winner, 1999 and 2001, for illustrating two books in the Diary series by Richard Platt.

Janet Ahlberg (1944-1994) was a British children's book illustrator, and the co-creator, together with her husband Allan Ahlberg, of the best-selling Jolly Postman series. The Jolly Postman or Other People's Letters is an interactive children's picture book by Janet and Allan Ahlberg.Luckily my children took good care of their books and this only came out at Christmas because the new version is made of flimsier paper and I don't think will hold up to 20 years of love as the original one has. Some of the activities included in this pack might need your children to work as a group, which encourages them to practice their teamwork and cooperation skills. 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. We've also made sure to include a variety of resources that you can incorporate in core lessons such as maths and English.