![]() ![]() The Ahlbergs are the best to ever do it, and Funnybones perfectly encapsulates the joy of a fright and a rowdy excursion with friends. She decided that keeping charge of a class was very hard work so she decided to develop her artistic ability and went to study graphic design at Leicester. Originally trained as a teacher in Sunderland from 1963 to 1966, Ahlberg was encouraged to paint and draw. The colours and the use of black are particularly striking, and speech bubbles encourage everyone reading along to join in. Janet Ahlberg was born in Huddersfield, England in 1944 and brought up in Leicester. Designed with comic-style panels, the images are bold and simple yet exquisitely executed. his late wife Janet, created many award-winning childrens picture books. It’s very easy to understand why this Ahlberg classic has become lodged into the brains of so many readers since it was first published in 1980. A collection of the perennially popular Funny Bones books by Allan Ahlberg. Afterwards, the trio head to the zoo to look at the animal skeletons, and then it is finally time to frighten people! As the skeletons figure out how to put the dog bones together correctly, they sing the song ‘Dem Bones’ and we are treated to an iconic and hilarious anatomy lesson. The dog skeleton runs into a tree and ends up a pile of bones. A big skeleton and a little skeleton head out one night to walk the dog skeleton – and to frighten people. ![]() There was a dark, dark house and in the dark, dark house lived some skeletons. ![]()
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