Funnybones - Allan Ahlberg

The tittle of this category is for the book Funny bones which I have reviewed. The picture and the blurb at the top of the page is for the Pet shop a later book in the funny bones series of childrens books by Allan Ahlberg. The cover of the funny bones book is a bright yellow with some skeletons on it . Allan Alhlberg wrote funny bones and it was illustrated by his wife Janet. Alan has written many childrens books since the mid 1970’s . His wife Janet was the illustrator. Sadly Janet died in 1994 At work we have been reading Funny bones by Allan Ahlberg and illustrated by his wife Janet. With Halloween coming I thought this a topical ...  Read the complete review

This book is a classic that is written by Janet and Allan Ahlberg and was first published in 1980. I find it interesting that Janet is placed first considering she was the illustrator. Either she was the boss of the relationship or she had a wonderful husband who was a real gentleman! The book tells the story of two skeletons and a dog skeleton that live in a cellar. One night they decide to take the dog for a walk and whilst they are out they plan on scaring someone. They get up to all sorts of fun and games while they are out and about including visiting the local zoo and taking rides on some of the animals. When it comes to the time to find some people to ...  Read the complete review

This book tells the story of a skeleton family who go for a walk, try to scare eachother, then go to a skeleton zoo and play with the animals. It's an old classic, and one I remember from my own childhood. If you've never read it, it has a really repetitive style, like 'on a dark dark hill there was a dark dark dark town, in the dark dark town was a dark dark street'. This completely does my head in. The repetitive nature of the language is key to helping young ones learn the words in it, but it can get a bit wearing essentially reading the same thing, and repeating the same words again and again. The illustrations are full page which is ...  Read the complete review

My middle son came home with this book from school today, they were each given this book to encourage them with reading. My little man thought it was quite funny when I told him that this was a book I also had when I was a little girl the same age as him and I can still remember it to this day. The cover of the book is yellow with a rectangle in the middle with the title in a red banner at the top and a black picture with 2 skeletons and a skeleton dog. The back cover of the book is also yellow with a black rectangle showing the skeletons running away. The book starts by setting the scene, on a dark hill, in a dark town, there was a dark street. On ...  Read the complete review

My daughter has just started school and has been given a copy of Funnybones by Allan and Janet Ahlberg. Allan Ahlberg has been quite a prolific children's author for many years, often teaming up with his wife Janet who illustrated his stories, until she sadly died from cancer in 1994. One of their best loved creations was Funnybones which I believe was made into a TV series at one time. Funnybones tells the story of three skeletons - a big one, a small one and a dog - who live in a dark cellar who decide to go out one night and scare people. They actually fail quite miserably in this quest, but by the end of the story they end up having a wonderful and quite ...  Read the complete review