FUNNY BONES Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras DUNCAN TONATIUH Abrams Books for Young Readers New York
Skeletons riding bicycles skeletons wearing fancy hats skeletons dancing and strumming on guitars We call these festive bony figures calaveras In Spanish the word calavera ca-la-VEH-rah means skull A lot of things that are associated with skulls and with el Día de Muertos the Day of the Dead are called calaveras For example there are calavera drawings candy calaveras calavera poems and calavera toys The skeleton figures are not scary in fact they look as if they’re having fun 2
They are the creation of José Guadalupe Posada and this is his story 3
