LONDON — Allan Ahlberg, the acclaimed British author behind more than 150 beloved children’s books, including “Each Peach Pear Plum,” “Peepo!” and “The Jolly Postman,” has died at 87, the Associated ...

Allan Ahlberg, who has died aged 87, formed, with his wife Janet, one of the most successful partnerships in children’s writing of the last century; the combination of his gentle rhyming verse with ...