Books with title Skeleton Crew

Skeleton Crew 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! "Zzz!" The three skeletons enjoy a holiday on-board their little boat. But one night - "Yo-ho-ho" - the pirates come and put them out to sea on a tiny raft, launching them on an oceanful of new adventures. 'By far our best writer for the young' - Daily Telegraph 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, The Ghost Train, The Black Cat, The Pet Shop, Bumps in the Night, Dinosaur Dreams, Mystery Tour, Give the Dog a Bone and A Brilliant Bone Rattling Collection, all of which are available from Puffin.

Full-color photos. "An arresting introduction to skeletons. Each spread has an introductory paragraph plus captioned drawings and spectacular photos. Topics include exoskeletons, fish, birds, mammals, arms, skulls, and teeth. The look at the human skeleton also gives discussions of skull, spine, ribs, arms, and legs, plus front and rear views. A wealth of information, beautifully presented."--Kirkus.

Eyewitness -- bringing the natural world into your living room. The skeleton- it is essential to life, yet the sight of one can fill us with fear. As we learn in the Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Video: Skeleton, fish, birds, reptiles and amphibians all have one. Defined as the internal frame of bones on which the soft body hangs, the skeleton supports the body, anchors the muscles and protects vital organs. The spine supports the human frame, limbs give us movement, the ribcage surrounds the soft organs and the skull protects the information center for the entire body. Of the over 300 we are born with to the 206 they fuse to become in adults, every bone has an important and complex job. With incredible computer animation and stunning graphics, the video uses an animated human skeleton as our "host" through the structure itself. Skeletons also serve as the body's permanent record, as fossils they taught us everything we know about evolution, the skull, being a blueprint of lifestyle, telling more than any other bone. In addition to structure and composition, this half-hour video compares and contrasts the human skeleton with those of other animals and explains how the differences correlate in their individual movement (swimming, flying, running on twos or fours). A broken bone is one of the few components in the body that can mend itself and we are shown up-close how this occurs over time. Although a skeleton is defined as internal, the vast majority of living things on Earth have an exoskeleton, or their correlative structure on the outside. Some examples disgust us (insects), but others are beautiful; we collect shells, coral reefs are nothing but masses of dead exoskeletons clumped together. The skeleton will probably always stand as a reminder of our mortality (interestingly, the elephant is the only other creature afraid of its own skeleton), after watching this amazing addition to the Eyewitness Video Series viewers should also be in awe of the massive job it performs for us. Without the strength of our skeleton, life would be far more fragile-if it existed at all.