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The Jolly Christmas Postman is an interactive children's picture book created by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. It is the sequel to The Jolly Postman. The innovative project required five years to complete the first book The Jolly Postman or Other People's Letters, and there was much discussion with both the publisher Heinemann and the printer before it was issued in 1986. The Jolly Postman has sold more than six million copies. Little, Brown simultaneously published this book in Canada.

Alternatively, The Jolly Postman published in 1986 by Little, Brown books for Young Readers, is a series of three books including the 1986, 1991, and 1995 sequels to The Jolly Postman, or Other people's letters. In the U.K., the first book won the Children's Book Award and the Kurt Maschler Award. The second book won the 1991 Greenaway Medal for British children's book illustration.

Summary
The Jolly Christmas Postman follows an unnamed mail carrier as he delivers letters by bicycle to characters from fairy tales. Following each sheet of narrative verse and illustration, there is one shaped like an envelope. Each envelope contains the letter contents for that character. Each envelope is opened and its enclosure read at that point in the story.

In this story, the post man delivers letters to the three bears, little red riding hood , humpty dumpty , and the gingerbread boy. The post man also receives a letter from all the characters at the end of the story.

Awards
Janet Ahlberg was a commended runner up for the 1986 Greenaway Medal and she won the 1991 Greenaway Medal for the sequel. The annual award by the Library Association then recognised the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject.

Series
Following The Jolly Postman's success, the Ahlbergs and Heinemann produced two sequels. The latter, third in the series, was published after Janet's death in 1994. For the second book, The Jolly Christmas Postman, she won her second Kate Greenaway Medal.