Funnybones : Funnybones - Janet Ahlberg

Funnybones

By: Janet Ahlberg

Paperback | 1 September 2020 | Edition Number 1

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An upsized edition of the classic and beloved Funnybones by children's book superstars Janet and Allan Ahlberg

This is the first book in the FUNNYBONES series and introduces the skeletons - a big skeleton, a little skeleton and a dog skeleton. They live in a dark dark cellar of a dark dark house on a dark dark hill and so the word repetition continues through this lighthearted story for early readers. The skeletons venture out of their cellar one night to find someone to scare, but everyone is in bed so they amuse themselves by scaring each other and playing with the skeleton animals that live in the zoo.

About the Author

Janet Ahlberg, along with Allan Ahlberg, created some of the world's most popular picture books, including Each Peach Pear Plum and The Jolly Christmas Postman, both winners of Greenaway Medals, and The Baby's Catalogue, inspired by their daughter Jessica. Janet died in 1994.
Industry Reviews
The fun begins with the endpapers to this sprightly, meandering, waggish tale of three skeletons' night out - and it continues on the title page, where the Ahlbergs' big skeleton, little skeleton, and dog skeleton step up their comical cavorting. Inside, black-as-night backgrounds combine with cheerful kindergarten style and color as the skeletons set out rakishly to "walk the dog and frighten somebody." They play in the park, romp with animal skeletons at the zoo (the live animals are all asleep), and end up frightening each other when they can't find anyone else to frighten. The funniest sequence deals with the dog skeleton's crashing himself to pieces and the other skeletons' cockeyed attempts to reassemble him. ("Wofo! "Oofu!" "Owof!" "Foow!" goes the mixed-up dog, as the hits and misses proceed.) Unfortunately, this comes fairly early and so lends a downhill slope to what follows. Still, there are some funny scares at the end, and much jolly bone-rattling throughout.
(Kirkus Reviews)

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