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The Amazing Bone: (Caldecott Honor Book)

The Amazing Bone: (Caldecott Honor Book) - Hardcover

by William Steig
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Availability:In StockContributor:William SteigAudience:Ages 4-8Publish date:1976-09-01Pages:32
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)ISBN-13:9780374302481ISBN-10:374302480UPC:9780374302481Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Humorous Stories, Fantasy & Magic, AnimalsBook Topic:PigsSize:11.08 x 9.08 x 0.32 inchesWeight:0.7804Product ID:SCAWNAW1Y5

The Amazing Bone is a 1976 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year and Outstanding Book of the Year, a 1977 Caldecott Honor Book, and a 1977 Boston Globe - Horn Book Awards Honor Book for Picture Books.

William Steig, incomparable master of the contemporary picture book, has never been better than in The Amazing Bone.

It's a bright and beautiful spring day, and Pearl, a pig, is dawdling on her way home from school. Most unexpectedly, she strikes up an acquaintance with a small bone. "You talk?" says Pearl. "In any language," says the bone. "And I can imitate any sound there is." (Its former owner was a witch.) Pearl and the bone immediately take a liking to each other, and before you know it she is on her way home with the bone in her purse, left open so they can continue their conversation. Won't her parents be surprised when she introduces her talking bone!

But before that happy moment comes, the resourceful bone must deal with a band of highway robbers in Halloween masks and, worse, a fox who decides that Pearl will be his main course at dinner that night. And deal it does, with gambits droll and thrilling.

Made into a short animated film voiced by John Lithgow, available on streaming and home video.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)ISBN-13:9780374302481ISBN-10:374302480UPC:9780374302481Book Category:Juvenile FictionBook Subcategory:Humorous Stories, Fantasy & Magic, AnimalsBook Topic:PigsSize:11.08 x 9.08 x 0.32 inchesWeight:0.7804Product ID:SCAWNAW1Y5
William Steig (1907-2003) was a cartoonist, illustrator and author of award-winning books for children, including Shrek!, on which the DreamWorks movies are based; the Caldecott Medal-winner Sylvester and the Magic Pebble; The Caldecott Honor book The Amazing Bone; and the Newbury Honor Books Abel's Island and Doctor De Soto. Stieg also published thirteen collections of drawings for adults, including The Lonely Ones, Male/Female, and Our Miserable Life.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)

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