Kicking a ball allan ahlberg biography
The incomparable Allan Ahlberg takes us on a journey from childhood to fatherhood full of humour, warmth, friendship and football..
Kicking a Ball
The story plot shows the young boy’s journey throughout his life which involves kicking a ball. He kicks it with his friends, against a wall on his own, in the playground, on the grass, before breakfast, before bed and the boy even dreams about kicking a ball.
Born in Croydon in , he was educated at Sunderland Technical College.
The structure of the book starts of with the boy being young and then leads onto him growing older, starting a family and still finding time to kick a ball as part of his daily routine and still playing football with the same friends he had when he was younger.
When he starts a family, he introduces his baby to kicking a ball. At the end of the book, it shows a young girl kicking a ball in the street, which I interpreted to be his daughter. The use of characters is interesting because we do not learn any names, apart from the main characters friends, because it is from the m