Waterstones Funnybones: A Bone Rattling Collection
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Price: £9.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: A collection of the perennially popular Funny Bones books by Allan Ahlberg. Celebrate thirty years of Funnybones with the spooky A Brilliant Bone-rattling Collection which contains three stories from Allan Ahlberg's, iconic children's picture book series about skeletons: The Ghost Train, Bumps in the Night and Skeleton Crew. This collection is perfect for early readers!. In this big big book with its bright bright colours there is a dark dark house and in that dark dark house in a dark dark cellar live some. skeletons!. Allan Ahlberg has published over 100 children's books and with his late wife Janet, created many award-winning children's picture books. One of the most successful literary partnerships, husband and wife writing team Janet and Allan Ahlberg collaborated for twenty years until Janet’s death in 1994, creating some of Britain’s best-known and loved contemporary children’s classics including: Each Peach Pear Plum, The Jolly Postman (and The Jolly Christmas Postman), spooky favourite Funnybones as well as Cops and Robbers and Burglar Bill. Waterstones Funnybones: A Bone Rattling Collection - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
Category: Books
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9780141333571
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ISBN: 9780141333571
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Author: ZS
Rating: 5
Review: Such a memorable book from when I was little. Illustrations fun and stories exciting for a 4 year old ( my son particularly loves the night train one). We have since also watched the episodes on the internet which are just as fun. Originally bought it around Halloween but it’s remained a favourite throughout Christmas too!!!
Author: L. Howell
Rating: 4
Review: Debated whether these should have 3/4 stars. I have a lot of love for Funnybones as I used to read it a lot as a child and read the original story to my then three year old lots of times, so thought I'd get him some of the others in the series. You get 3 stories in this book and all of them aren't great. For the most part it's written in prose but here and there are parts that rhyme which make it a bit disjointed. As an adult I can see where they have added 'humour' but I don't think this always translates well to a 3/4 year old yet....but there are parts like the injuries in Bumps in the Night that he does find very funny. I was expecting more of the 'in a dark dark street' etc' that starts and ends the original story, but it isn't repeated much in these stories, which is a shame because as a family we liked repeating this together and is something the original is known for. I also find that in the four Funnybones books we have its a theme that some of the story is implied by the pictures rather than the words you read, so my son doesn't always 'get the point' of whats happened unless you then explain the pictures, which disrupts reading the story. On the plus side, the illustrations are a bit different and it's interesting that such an old book has two male skeletons living together and sharing a bed. Of all the different books we read, it's also noticeable that he repeats large sections of these ones word for word and doesn't do that with other books we read. For example, there are two songs about the ghost train that he remembers and repeats word for word before I read them. He also loves the parts where the skeletons get injured and calls out the 'clonk' or 'wow' sounds, and the 'howl' from the dog. So whilst as an adult I can see the gaps and would edge towards 3 stars (despite nostalgia!) my son definitely loves these books and as a kid I did as well. He would happily have all three stories every night, so something obviously works!!