Awards
The Ahlbergs won two major British book awards for The Jolly Postman, the 1986 Kurt Maschler Award and 1987 Children's Book Award. The "Emil" figurines from Maschler publishers and Booktrust annually (1982 to 1999) recognised the author(s) of one "work of imagination for children, in which text and illustration are integrated so that each enhances and balances the other."
Janet Ahlberg was a commended runner up for the 1986 Greenaway Medal and she won the 1991 Greenaway for the sequel. The annual award by the Library Association then recognised the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject.
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