diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 77a978f..7fe7ea6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ The package can be installed by adding <font color="darkblue"> **Matplotex**</fo
 ```elixir
 def deps do
 [
-    {:matplotex, "~> 0.4.71" }
+    {:matplotex, "~> 0.4.8" }
 ]
 ```
 
diff --git a/lib/matplotex.ex b/lib/matplotex.ex
index 0f7c402..5cd6d7d 100644
--- a/lib/matplotex.ex
+++ b/lib/matplotex.ex
@@ -190,12 +190,23 @@ defmodule Matplotex do
   ```elixir
 
       alias Matplotex as: M
-    categories = ["apple", "banana", "fig", "avocado"]
+    categories = ["lorem", "ipsum", "amet", "adore"]
       values1 = [22, 33, 28, 34]
       iex> Matplotex.bar(width, values1, width, label: "Dataset1", color: "#255199")
       %M.Figure{axes: %M.Figure.Areal.BarChart{...}, ...}
     ```
 
+    - To draw a stacked bar chart
+    ```elixir
+    categories = ["lorem", "ipsum", "amet", "adore"]
+    values1 = [22, 33, 28, 34]
+    values2 = [12, 23, 18, 24]
+    values3 = [22, 33, 28, 34]
+    iex> Matplotex.bar(width, values1, width, label: "Dataset1", color: "#255199")
+        |> Matplotex.bar(width, values2, width, label: "Dataset2", color: "blue", bottom: values1)
+        |> Matplotex.bar(width, values3, width, label: "Dataset3", color: "green", bottom: [values1, values2])x
+    ```
+
   This function takes a list of numerical `values` and a single `width` value to create a bar chart where:
     - The height of each bar corresponds to its respective value from the list.
     - Each bar has the specified constant width.
diff --git a/lib/matplotex/figure/areal.ex b/lib/matplotex/figure/areal.ex
index 9c23061..7cce7d4 100644
--- a/lib/matplotex/figure/areal.ex
+++ b/lib/matplotex/figure/areal.ex
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 defmodule Matplotex.Figure.Areal do
   @moduledoc false
+  alias Matplotex.InputError
   alias Matplotex.Figure.Areal.Ticker
   alias Matplotex.Utils.Algebra
   alias Matplotex.Figure.Dataset
@@ -173,7 +174,7 @@ defmodule Matplotex.Figure.Areal do
       # For stacked bar chart the flattening supposed to be the sumation of yaxis data
       def flatten_for_data(datasets, nil), do: flatten_for_data(datasets)
 
-      def flatten_for_data([%{x: x, y: y} | _datasets], bottom) do
+      def flatten_for_data([%{x: x, y: y} | _datasets], bottom) when is_list(bottom) do
         y =
           bottom
           |> Kernel.++([y])
@@ -183,6 +184,9 @@ defmodule Matplotex.Figure.Areal do
 
         {x, y}
       end
+      def flatten_for_data(_, _bottom) do
+        raise InputError, bottom: "Wrong data provided for opts bottom"
+      end
 
       def flatten_for_data(datasets) do
         datasets
diff --git a/mix.exs b/mix.exs
index 828f625..8f30b48 100644
--- a/mix.exs
+++ b/mix.exs
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ defmodule Matplotex.MixProject do
     [
       app: :matplotex,
       organization: :bigthinkcode,
-      version: "0.4.71",
+      version: "0.4.8",
       elixir: "~> 1.17",
       start_permanent: Mix.env() == :prod,
       elixirc_paths: elixirc_paths(Mix.env()),