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The Amazing Bone audiobook
- By: William Steig
- Narrator: Stanley Tucci
- Category: Friendship, Juvenile Fiction, Social Issues
- Length: 14 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: October 20, 2012
- Language: English
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The Amazing Bone Audiobook Summary
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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The Amazing Bone Audiobook Narrator
Stanley Tucci is the narrator of The Amazing Bone audiobook that was written by William Steig
Stanley Tucci’s memorable roles include parts in the films Julie & Julia, The Hunger Games, The Devil Wears Prada, The Lovely Bones,The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, and Lucky Number Slevin. He also wrote, directed, and produced Big Night–winner of an Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay. For his performance in the Broadway production of Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Stanley received a Tony Nomination. He has also garnered two AudioFile Earphones Awards for his audiobook narration, which includes reading William Steig’s Shrek!
About the Author(s) of The Amazing Bone
William Steig is the author of The Amazing Bone
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The Amazing Bone Full Details
| Narrator | Stanley Tucci |
| Length | 14 minutes |
| Author | William Steig |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Macmillan Audio |
| Release date | October 20, 2012 |
| ISBN | 9781427232588 |
Subjects
The publisher of the The Amazing Bone is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Friendship, Juvenile Fiction, Social Issues
Additional info
The publisher of the The Amazing Bone is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Young Listeners. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781427232588.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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