Stephen was on the advert for this, reading from The Jolly Postman by Allan Ahlberg, which made me very happy.

oh i love the jolly postman such a good book :D

oh i love the jolly postman such a good book :D

really really?
what is the jolly postman?
and when is the programme on? and what is it about?

It's a group of programmes on TV this week about the really low literacy standards in Britain today - so many kids leave school not knowing how to read. :( The Jolly Postman is a great children's book by the wonderful Allan Ahlberg.

oh is that the one where the postman goes to all the different people (it may have been mursery rhyme characters i cant rememebr) and each time you have to read the letter and im sure it rhymes,
and in one bit you have to use a magnify glass to read it,
probably being a bit vague but was that it?
or was it the one where the postman delivers all the parcels except one which doesnt have a name on it, and its because its his birthday and the parcels he has been delivering were for a suprise party back at his, and he had forgotten his own birthday?
they are the only 2 postman stories i can think of (except of course postman pat!)

It's the first one. I love that book.

Ohhh Allan Ahlberg wrote Cuddley Dudley as well - I love that book :)

ok, i cant read the word duddley without thinking of harry potter!
i must have read the postman book then, but i know for definate that i dont own it

What's that?

Thanks for the SM-spotting and reporting, Red. B)