At school, Samira learns about skeletons and is horrified to learn that everyone, including her best friend, Frida has one. Samira is so disturbed by this new knowledge that she is unable to go on with her usual activities and avoids her friends. When her mother offers to remove her skeleton for her, Samira quickly realizes that she needs her skeleton after all.

Author lives in Oslo.

Norway. Originally published in Norway as Samira og skjelettene by Cappelen Damm AS in 2014. English translation by Don Bartlett published in the United States by Eerdmans in 2016.

Samira likes school, especially when she gets to sit next to her best friend, Frida. But when they learn about the skeletal system in science class, Samira suddenly begins to imagine everyone in school as a walking skeleton. Soon she starts avoiding her fellow classmates, even Frida, but Samira still can't escape her own skeleton. With some clever help from her mother, though, Samira realizes that maybe having a body full of bones isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Enhanced by delightfully impish illustrations, Camilla Kuhn's playful book depicts the hilarious results of an imagination gone awry.