Funnybones

By Allan Ahlberg, Janet Ahlberg,

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Book description

"This is how the story begins... On a dark dark hill there was a dark dark town. In the dark dark town there was a dark dark street."

Discover the classic children's story that has delighted generation after generation. A must read for halloween, discover the hillarious Funnybones stories. Packed…

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1 author picked Funnybones as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

We found this book as part of the Yoto Audio book collection. It tells the story of skeletons who have a skeleton dog and go out to try to scare people at night, but things usually happen, and no one actually gets scared. 

My kid laughs when the animal bones show up. There is a dog skeleton who gets lost in the snow, which my six-year-old finds the epitome of humor.

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