Allan Ahlberg

Penguin presents Funny Bones: The Collection by Allan Ahlberg, read by Stephen Mangan. An audio collection of the perennially popular Funny Bones books by Allan Ahlberg Featuring: Funnybones, The Pet Shop, The Black Cat, Bumps in the Night, Give the Dog a Bone, Dinosaur Dreams, Skeleton Crew and Mystery Tour.

A wonderful rhyming story to read aloud. Every parent can immediately relate to the simple joy felt by a boy simply kicking a ball, and how there is nothing else quite like it.

Adoption was a shameful business then in many people's eyes, the babies being mostly illegitimate. Allan Ahlberg was adopted as a baby. In 1938 he was picked up in London by his new mother and taken back to Oldbury in the Black Country. Now one of the most successful children's book writers in the world, in 'The Bucket' he describes an oddly enchanted childhood lived out in an industrial town during the 1940s, in conditions which today we might describe...

Follows the humorous adventures of the Gaskitt family.

This is the first Funnybones in the series and introduces the skeletons - a big skeleton, a little skeleton and a dog skeleton.

A mathematical conundrum in which a little girl wakes up to find that she has doubled in number.

Depicts the things a child will see, do, and experience when they start school.

Board edition of the classic I Spy book involving nursery rhyme and fairy tale characters.