Previously

Allan Ahlberg

Candlewick Press, Apr 12, 2011 - JUVENILE FICTION - 32 pages

The team behind THE RUNAWAY DINNER reverses direction in this clever pastiche of fairy tales in which everyone lives happily ever . . . before.
"Jack was running like mad in the dark woods with a hen under his arm.
Previously, he had stolen the hen and climbed down a beanstalk."
But do you know what was Jack doing before he climbed down the beanstalk?
Or what Jack and Jill were arguing about before they went up the hill? And what happened before that? Every story, every person, and every thing started somewhere, and now the inventive and whimsical Allan Ahlberg explores what all your favorite storybook characters were up to previously, aided by Bruce Ingman's energetic illustrations.

"From the Hardcover edition."

About the author

Allan Ahlberg was born in 1938 in South London, and grew up in the Black Country. He worked as a teacher, postman, grave digger, soldier and plumber's mate before he became a full-time writer. He met his wife and creative partner, Janet at teacher training college. It was because Janet wanted to illustrate a book that Allan wrote his first book, the Brick Street boys. After that, together they wrote 37 books. Janet died in 1994 and Ahlberg discontinued his writing career for a few years before picking it up again.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Previously
• Author: Allan Ahlberg
• Illustrated by: Bruce Ingman
• Publisher: Candlewick Press, 2011
• ISBN: 0606153764, 9780606153768
• Length: 32 pages
• Subjects: JUVENILE FICTION / Concepts / Date & Time; JUVENILE FICTION / Fairy Tales & Folklore / Anthologies; Juvenile Fiction / Fairy Tales & Folklore / Adaptations; Juvenile Fiction / Humorous Stories; Juvenile Fiction / Imagination & Play; Juvenile Fiction / Legends, Myths, Fables / General