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The Amazing Bone: (Caldecott Honor Book) Audiobook
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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.
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"Pearl (a piglet) discovers a talking bone, which had fallen out of a witch's basket...This is a tight mesh of witty storytelling and art, bound to please any audience."
— Starred, Booklist
Awards
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A 1977 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book
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A 1977 Caldecott Honor Book
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A 1976 New York Times Best Juvenile Book of the Year
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Among longlisted titles for Boston Globe-Horn Bk Award, Honor Bk, 1977
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Among longlisted titles for NYTBR Notable Children's BOTY, 1976
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Among longlisted titles for School Library Best Books of the Year
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Among longlisted titles for ALA Notable Children's Books, 1977
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Among longlisted titles for School Library Journal Best Books of the Year
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Among longlisted titles for NYTBR Notable Children's BOTY, 1976
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Among longlisted titles for School Library Best Books of the Year
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Among longlisted titles for Reading Rainbow Review Book
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Among longlisted titles for The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year, 1976
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Among longlisted titles for Horn Book Magazine Fanfare List, 1977
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Caldecott Honor Book, 1977
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Among longlisted titles for Reading Rainbow Review Book
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Among longlisted titles for The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year, 1976
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Among longlisted titles for Horn Book Magazine Fanfare List, 1977
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Caldecott Honor Book, 1977
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Among longlisted titles for ALA Notable Children's Books, 1977
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Among longlisted titles for Boston Globe-Horn Bk Award, Honor Bk, 1977
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About William Steig
William Steig (1907–2003) published his first children’s book, Roland the Minstrel Pig, in 1968 and received the Caldecott Medal for Sylvester and the Magic Pebble in 1970. His works also include The Amazing Bone, a Caldecott Honor Book, as well as Abel’s Island and Doctor De Soto, both Newbery Honor Books. His book Shrek! was released by DreamWorks as a feature film and was immensely popular.
About the Narrators
Stanley Tucci is an actor, writer, director, and producer. He has directed five films and appeared in over seventy films, countless television shows, and a dozen plays on and off Broadway. He has been nominated for an Academy Award, a Tony Award, and a spoken word Grammy; is a winner of two Golden Globes and two Emmys; and has received numerous other critical and professional awards and accolades. He is also author of two cookbooks, The Tucci Table and The Tucci Cookbook.
Meryl Streep, considered by many movie reviewers to be the greatest living film actress, has been nominated for an Academy Award an astonishing sixteen times and has won it three times. She has also garnered two Emmy Awards, seven Golden Globes, and six Drama Desk Awards. In 2004, she was awarded the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award. She is also an Audie Award and Grammy Award–winning narrator.