Funnybones: A Bone Rattling Collection

Funnybones

by Allan Ahlberg, André Amstutz (Illustrator)

In this big, big book there is a dark, dark hill.
And on that dark, dark hill there is a dark, dark town.
And in that dark, dark town . . . some skeletons live!

A bumper collection of three spooktacular stories!

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books

Kindle Edition

Published September 20, 2018

About the author

Allan Ahlberg was one of the UK's most acclaimed and successful authors of children's books - including the best-selling Jolly Postman series. Born in Croydon in 1938, he was educated at Sunderland Technical College. Although he dreamed of becoming a writer since the age of twelve, his route to that goal was somewhat circuitous. Other jobs along the way included postman (not an especially jolly one, he recalls), gravedigger, plumber, and teacher.

Ahlberg wrote his first book when he was thirty-seven, after a decade of teaching - a profession that he maintains is "much harder" than being a writer. He says that if he hadn't become a writer, he would have loved to be a soccer player. He was married for many years to fellow children's author Janet Ahlberg, with whom he often worked. Their daughter, Jessica Ahlberg, is also a children's author.

Reviews

[Katejay]

From my childhood

[Tracy Enright]

I read this story to my five-year-old who loved it. This book has the trademark strong rhyming patterns of Alan Ahlberg (who could forget “on a dark, dark night”) and the illustrations are bold and colourful and go well with the story, adding an extra dimension for the astute child.

There are three tales in this book, each of them short enough to read in a few minutes whilst satisfying enough to make it feel like a worthwhile bedtime story. My son sat through all three stories with rapt attention – not bad for a boy who's main hobby is fidgeting.