Allan Ahlberg, celebrated children's author, dies aged 87

Celebrated children's author Allan Ahlberg has died aged 87, his publisher Penguin Random House has confirmed. He wrote 150 books over a career which spanned more than five decades, including The Jolly Postman, Funny Bones, Peepo! and the award-winning Each Peach Pear Plum.Many of his most well-known works were the result of collaborations with wife Janet, an award-winning illustrator. They went on to sell…