Funnybones: Give the Dog a Bone

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Dog gets left behind when Big and Little decide to visit the dark, dark dinosaur museum. When Dog follows Big and Little to the dinosaur museum, he thinks a huge, huge dinosaur wanted to hurt them.

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." The use of repetitive language and songs further add to the stories features and add a great amount of fun and laughter when the story is read aloud. Both the adults reading the text and children can join in with this. I feel that it cannot only be used as a literacy focus, but the story itself has scientific features. Children are able to extend their biological knowledge of the structure of the human skeleton. This will assist in enlarging their language vocabulary. Funnybones is a popular children's book written by Allan and Janet Ahlberg. The story follows the adventures of a family of skeletons - even the pet dog is a skeleton!

The author uses ‘word repetition’ throughout the book to make it enjoyable to the reader and also to make it humorous. A song is also included in the book, and I remember as a child reading the book over and over again and singing along out loud!

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. The pictures in the story are all based in dark places. Investigate light and different light sources. Little: The smaller skeleton brother (who was without a hat), but came up with many ideas for the crew to do in every episode.Janet and Allan Ahlberg's Funnybones stories are classic family favourites. Funnybones was published in 1980 and it's illustrated by Janet Ahlberg while Allan Ahlberg wrote the words. It takes place in a dark, dark town in a dark, dark house with two skeletons, Big and Little, and their skeleton Dog. Each Funnybones story is filled with all sorts of exciting adventures and songs that your children can have fun reading along with. More stories by Allen and Janet Ahlberg Moon Man: The Crescent-moon-shaped character who was always the narrator in each episode. Unlike other characters, he was also not a skeleton. Watch the animated series and explain which you prefer. There are lots of episodes available online. Here is one of them: When using this book in placement in Year 2, all children joined in and sang along. They all enjoyed singing as there were a lot of rhyming and repetition words. Funnybones (Welsh: 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.