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This is the first volume in a series of nine that collects the popular underground comic BONE. When one of pompous entrepreneur Phoney Bone's shady schemes gets him kicked out of Boneville again, his loyal cousins--the intrepid and kindhearted Fone Bone, and the ever-cheerful, cigar-smoking Smiley Bone--accompany him into exile. A plague of locusts separates them in the desert, and each of the three must make his way alone into a mysterious valley, populated by helpful bugs, tough, cow-racing Gran'ma Ben, her lovely granddaughter Thorn, a reclusive dragon, and monstrous but dim rat creatures interested in eating Fone Bone and capturing Phoney Bone for some unknown purpose. Originally published in black and white, the art in this reprinted edition is in muted full color. The illustrations range from the whimsical (e.g. the Bone cousins, who are the cutest anthropomorphized bones ever, and the supposedly frightening dragon, who resembles a seriously peeved donkey) to the fairy-tale lovely (Thorn looks like a princess disguised as a peasant).
| Details | | Series: | Bone Series |
| Size | | Length: | 138 pages | | Height: | 9.0 in | | Width: | 6.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 12.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"[T]he original b&w has been beautifully converted into color....[F]eatures some of the wittiest writing of any children's literature in recent memory....This is first-class kid lit: exciting, funny scary and resonant enough that it will stock with readers for a long time." (starred review)
Publishers Weekly (02/07/2005)
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