Funnybones: The Collection

Funnybones

by Janet Ahlberg

Penguin presents Funny The Collection by Allan Ahlberg, read by Stephen Mangan.

An audio collection of the perennially popular Funny Bones books by Allan Ahlberg

Funnybones, The Pet Shop, The Black Cat, Bumps in the Night, Give the Dog a Bone, Dinosaur Dreams, Skeleton Crew and Mystery Tour.

Audible Audio

Published September 28, 2017

About the author

Janet Ahlberg (1944-1994) was a British children's book illustrator, and the co-creator, together with her husband Allan Ahlberg, of the best-selling Jolly Postman series. Born as Janet Hall in Yorkshire in 1944, she studied at Sunderland Technical College, where she met Ahlberg. The two married in 1969, and began to work together, publishing their first co-venture - The Old Joke Book - in 1976. She won the 1978 Kate Greenaway Medal from the British Library Association - an award recognizing the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject - for Each Peach Pear Plum.

Janet Ahlberg died of breast cancer in 1994, at the age of fifty, having produced many beloved and bestselling books. Her daughter with Allan Ahlberg - Jessica Ahlberg - is also a children's book creator.

Reviews

[🌶 peppersocks 🧦 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reflections and lessons learned:
In a dark dark cellar...

Dinosaur dreams is probably my favourite! Brilliantly familiar stories from the family of skellingtons (always the correct spelling and pronunciation) that I was always slightly scared of as a child (mainly based on the cover art) but can enjoy more as an adult

[Bug · Rating 3 out of 5]

Funy

[Alice Rimmer · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's a very funny story. It has repetition and amazing pictures. They even sing a song, how about that. I recommend this to parents and younger readers.

[Holly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Holly Age 7.
I like it because it is really funny as they say "call for doctor bones" all the time.
Mum remembers reading this as a kid too.
It rhymes!

[Emmie · Rating 4 out of 5]

very enjoyable

[isabella mojares · Rating 5 out of 5]

testing audiobooks for quiet time / cheating on my goodreads goals kinda

this one is sweet and well done. silly and "spooky" but i think fine for three year olds. maybe somehow they'll demonstrate that they paid attention to this one?


editing to say my 3s are obsessed with this audiobook and often request the "skeleton story"