Hallowe’en is coming, and with it the difficulties schools – perhaps UK culture, if we can talk in this way – face with the Americanised rituals. We could be wary of these things for the sake of children worried by them, we could take a mono-cultural stance, we could take a wider view that this is an opportunity not for worship of some dark force or bowing to Coca-Cola culture but for an opportunity to let children explore fear of the dark.
And in a dark, dark town… some skeletons lived.
Those last three words from the introductory page of Janet and Allan Ahlberg’s Funnybones set the oxymoronic tone of the whole riotous book (and its successors).
This is the link to posters for the forum in which I will explore some of these ideas next week: how can they be skeletons and live?
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