The Amazing Bone
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 Front cover of The Amazing Bone | |
| Author | William Steig |
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| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Publication date | September 1, 1976 |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | 32 |
| Awards | Caldecott Honor |
| OCLC | 973578476 |
The Amazing Bone is a 32-page children's picture book by William Steig from 1976. It was the first of Steig's few books in which the main character is a female.
The book received the Caldecott Honor Award (1977)[1] and was nominated for the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Picture Book (1977).
The Amazing Bone is about how Pearl the pig is walking home from school, and finds a magic talking bone on the ground, which has the ability to imitate any sound and speak in any language (it samples Spanish, Polish and German for her). Pearl takes it with her, and on the way home they have several misadventures, including an encounter with a hungry fox who wants to eat Pearl for dinner.[2]
The book was featured in an episode of the PBS television show Storytime in which it was read to a live audience.
