This book is about three skeletons, the big skeleton, the little skeleton and the dog skeleton. They all lived on a dark dark hill, in a dark dark house. This was one of my favourite stories growing up and now I'm sharing it with my daughter. She loves looking at the pictures. On the television series of Funnybones, six episodes have the same title based on the storybooks, but three had different titles of storybooks based on the same episode, and the other three never had a storybook as source material. The final episode of the television series, however, was based on the first storybook of Funnybones, while the first episode was based on the second storybook called "The Pet Shop". All twelve episodes were originally shown on BBC One and repeated on BBC Two as part of the Children's BBC strand, as it was known before 1999, on Tuesdays at 4:00pm.

There is a dark dark house and in that dark dark house in a dark dark cellar live some . . . skeletons! This is a great book to be read with young children at story time. Children can join in whilst the teacher is reading the book out loud of them. This section contains collection of resources to support the teaching of the wonderful ‘Funny Bones’ children’s stories. They start off with a goldfish but soon get tired of him and swap him for a parrot - but soon they get bored of him too . . . Eventually the pet shop owner gives them a box to take home with a surprise pet inside.A great book to share leading up to Halloween! My son loves reading this book and the repetition means that most of the time he is telling me the stor... The skeleton family consists of an adult, a kid, and a dog. They live in a basement and decide to go for a walk one night. It's really all harmless fun that does have a bit of a creepy edge. I mean, they're skeletons. 😅 Funnybones, is a fantastic children’s story book which is still used in literacy sessions in the classroom. It’s a perfect book for the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and into the earlier years of Key Stage One. During placement within the EYFS the children have a literacy carpet session every day which consists of one core book a week. Currently, the nursery class I’m working with have been reading the Funnybones book. The class teacher reads the story aloud to the children and then uses a range of techniques to assess their learning. The vast majority of the children are able to join in with the repetitive refrains which are used throughout the book, for example, ‘on a dark, dark hill, there was a dark, dark town. In the dark, dark town, there was a dark, dark street’ etc. Both the teacher and the children additionally use actions in particular sections of the story. These are used for the characters, big skeleton, little skeleton, dog skeleton, and objects such as the swings etc. It’s a technique which includes the children in the story telling process and further encourages them to remain engaged throughout the carpet session. This iconic children's picture book series about skeletons includes a trip to the pet shop, dinosaur dreams and many more. A wonderful collection, perfect for early readers! Funnybones (Welsh: Y Sgerbyde) is a Welsh-British children's television comedy series, which originally aired on S4C in Wales, and on BBC One with BBC Two showing repeats elsewhere in the United Kingdom from 29 September to 15 December 1992.

And with this atmosphere, any five year old will be completely enthralled by now. It even carries on in a way which reflects story books of old: Dog: The pet dog of the skeleton brothers who loved bones, digging holes, and found everything that the skeleton brothers need. Funnybones is a great short story that decpicts the tale of three skeletons, big skeleton, little skeleton and dog skeleton. The three skeletons go out for a night walk with the intentions of scaring some people, however they can't find anyone to scare. During the course of the walk they visit the zoo, re-assemble the dog skeleton and set about scaring each other. On a dark, dark hill, there was a dark, dark town. In the dark, dark town, there was a dark, dark street. On the dark, dark street, there was a dark, dark house. In the dark, dark house, there was a dark, dark staircase. Down the dark, dark staircase, there was a dark, dark cellar. And in the dark, dark cellar, some skeletons lived." 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.Draw around somebody you know on a large piece of paper and label the different bones inside their body on it. There are 206 bones in an adult human body. How many different calculations can you think of with the answer of 206? Funnybones" by Janet and Allen Ahlberg follows a day in the life of a skeleton family! This is entertaining for children to read as it shows a contrasting way of life to which they know. The skeletons wake up when everybody else goes to sleep and the nighttime is their daytime. Of course the town is deserted when they are awake as everybody else is asleep. They have to find imaginative ways to entertain themselves. But during the dark, dark night, the skeletons like to come out to play… in the park, in the zoo and even all the way home, singing songs and scaring each other.

Told in such a humorous and charming way with repetitive rhythms and funny illustrations, it's easy to see why it made such a lasting impression on me. Moon Man: The Crescent-moon-shaped character who was always the narrator in each episode. Unlike other characters, he was also not a skeleton. The Funnybones books are a must for children just starting to learn to read - these funny skeletons are definitely not the scary sort! Little gets bored with the quiet life on the dark, dark hill. So he decides to go to the city before he gets worried about Big and Dog getting lost. "There are too many skeletons" says the Big Skeleton in the city and even the underground has them.One night the skeletons decide to take their dog for a walk and frighten somebody. That's what skeletons are supposed to do, right? So off they go. It's such a fun quirky tale as both big and little skeleton decided to see if they can scare someone whilst taking dog skeleton for a night time walk.