Single mum Mrs Vole has her hands full looking after her big family and busy vet’s surgery. No job is too little, too big or too complicated for her! But her children decide that what she needs is a boyfriend, so they begin a hunt for the ideal man – and their ideal happy ending. A classic comic story of family life for beginner readers, written by much-loved author Allan Ahlberg.

Product Details

Series

Happy Families

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780140378801

Publisher

Puffin Books

Date published

December 31st, 1994

Lexile measure

470L Lexiles are the global standard in reading assessment. They are unique as they are able to measure a child and a book on the same scale – ensuring the right book gets to the right child at the right time.

For more details see What is a lexile?.

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 2.1; Lower years; 0.5 points

Other details

24 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

Series

Happy Families

Author/Illustrator

Allan Ahlberg

Allan has been delighting children of all ages for more than thirty years. Classic characters like Burglar Bill and The Jolly Postman have become firm favourites with a generation of children who are now reading them to their own offspring. Innovative, funny and moving, his work encompasses storybooks, picture books, easy readers, joke books and novels as well as poems.

Many of his books were collaborations with his wife, Janet, an illustrator, and they quickly became one of Britain’s leading author/illustrator teams.

Influenced by comics and cartoons, their perfect partnership went on to produce masterpieces including Peepo!, Each Peach Pear Plum and The Baby’s Catalogue.

Janet sadly died in 1994, but Allan has gone on to work with other illustrators and is still producing lots of new books.