There are children’s books. And then there’s The Jolly Postman. Janet and Allan Ahlberg’s enchanting Eighties tale of a postman cheerily delivering letters to a village of fairytale characters – tiny ...

John Cunliffe, the creator of the popular children’s television character Postman Pat, has died aged 85. His agency confirmed the news after an obituary for the author, who also created the ragdoll ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This year marks 40 years since the publication of ‘The Jolly Postman’ by Janet and Allan Ahlberg (Puffin) “Once upon a bicycle, so ...

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“Once upon a bicycle, so they say, a Jolly Postman came one day.” So begins this children’s classic, and so begins our hero’s morning round, which sees him drinking industrially British quantities of ...