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"The Black Cat" is one of the titles in Allan Ahlberg's iconic children's picture book series about skeletons, "Funnybones". Despite being set in a dark dark house, this brightly coloured book is perfect for early readers! The skeleton friends go sledging - whee! And crashing - bang! They can't see their bones in the white snow but they can see a black cat ...until she slips into their dark, dark ... More

"The Black Cat" is one of the titles in Allan Ahlberg's iconic children's picture book series about skeletons, "Funnybones". Despite being set in a dark dark house, this brightly coloured book is perfect for early readers! The skeleton friends go sledging - whee! And crashing - bang! They can't see their bones in the white snow but they can see a black cat ...until she slips into their dark, dark cellar. "There can be few families in the British Isles who do not possess at least one well-thumbed Ahlberg". ("Independent on Sunday"). Allan Ahlberg has published over 100 children's books and with his late wife Janet, created many award-winning children's picture books, including "Peepo!", "Each Peach Pear Plum" and the Kate Greenaway Medal winning "The Jolly Postman". Other titles in the "Funnybones" series include "Funnybones", "Mystery Tour", "The Ghost Train", "The Pet Shop", "Bumps in the Night", "Dinosaur Dreams", "Skeleton Crew", "Give the Dog a Bone" and "A Brilliant Bone Rattling Collection", all of which are available from Puffin.

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