
And leads them to creepily look through windows.

A skeleton’s main hobby is of course to scare people but they are all asleep which leaves them bereft of victims. However, their main purpose is to find somebody to frighten. They go to the park and there is a mishap that means dog skeleton needs reassembled which becomes a great big muddle. The story is of there night-time adventures, though ‘adventures’ may be exaggerating the scale of what they get up to. More importantly as skeletons they are nocturnal. For some reason they all share the same bed. There is a big skeleton, a little skeleton and a dog skeleton. ‘Live’ is a confusing term but let’s go with it. Story: In the dark, dark cellar, down the dark, dark staircase etc some skeletons live. It originated with this book which is the first in a series. First publishing 1980 by William Heinemann and then by Puffin in 1999.įunnybones is a classic for someone my age in Britain because of the cartoon TV series of the same name.
