The Great Marathon Football Match

by Janet Ahlberg

The Brick Street Boys all need new kit to play football in the school team - but there is one major problem - the school doesn't have any money. They hold a jumble sale and do odd jobs but still do not have enough money so they decide to hold a marathon football match, to be sponsored by the hour.

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

Janet Ahlberg (1944-1994) was a British children's book illustrator, and the co-creator, together with her husband Allan Ahlberg, of the best-selling Jolly Postman series. Born as Janet Hall in Yorkshire in 1944, she studied at Sunderland Technical College, where she met Ahlberg. The two married in 1969, and began to work together, publishing their first co-venture - The Old Joke Book - in 1976. She won the 1978 Kate Greenaway Medal from the British Library Association - an award recognizing the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject - for Each Peach Pear Plum.

Janet Ahlberg died of breast cancer in 1994, at the age of fifty, having produced many beloved and bestselling books. Her daughter with Allan Ahlberg - Jessica Ahlberg - is also a children's book creator.