Dear Author Alan AhbergThose who wrote The Children Classic Funibons, they died at the age of 87, their publishers Penguin random house has confirmed.
His career spread for more than five decades, Writing 150 books With WOOF!, Jolly Postman and Win the award Peach Pear Plum.
He worked with his late wife Janet-one award winner Illustrator – And the pair went to sell millions of books worldwide.
After Janet’s death in 1994, he worked with such painters Raymond Briges And Bruce Ingman. She built a series of collaboration with her daughter Jessica with a set of half pigs and a set of innovative variations on the story of Goldelox.
Fellow children’s author Michael Rosen Ahbarg was described as “the pioneers of great children’s literature”.
In a tribute to X, he said: “You were the pioneers of great children’s literature, both pictures in books and poetry.
“You were clever, funny and intelligent. My children loved your books. So I did and so.”
Franceska Dow, head of children’s literature at the Penguin Random House, said: “Alan was one of the most extraordinary Author I have the privilege and happiness to work.
“His magnificent books – many of them made with his late wife, Janet, high talented Illustrator – It is described as ‘Mini Masterpiece’.
“Alan has some of the best – true classics, which will be loved by children and families for the coming years. Dear Alan, we will all miss you a lot.”
The publishing house excluded its last picture book, under the table, 2023.
He is alive by his daughter Jessica, his wife Vanessa and step daughters Saskia and Johana.
Ahbarg was born in 1938 in Croidon. He was brought in Oldbury by his adopted parents, and worked as a postman, plumber and gravadigar. Eventually he trained to become a teacher at Sunderland Teacher Training College.
Many of his books won the awards or adapted to the children’s TV series.
Jolly Postman, published in 1991, won the Kurt Maschler Award and sold more than six million copies.
About a family of skeletons, Funibons were adapted to the children’s TV series in 1992 on BBC.
His book Woof!, About a little boy who turns into a dog, inspired a TV series, which ran on ITV between 1989 and 1997.
In 2014, Ahberg made headlines to reduce the Lifetime Achievement Award, when he came to know that it was sponsored by Amazon.
