The Amazing Bone
Title | The Amazing Bone PDF eBook |
Author | William Steig |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2013-07-30 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1466808438 |
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.
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Title | Daughter of Smoke & Bone PDF eBook |
Author | Laini Taylor |
Publisher | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2011-09-27 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0316192147 |
The first book in the New York Times bestselling epic fantasy trilogy by award-winning author Laini Taylor Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grown dangerously low. And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherworldly war. Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real; she's prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands"; she speaks many languages--not all of them human; and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she's about to find out. When one of the strangers--beautiful, haunted Akiva--fixes his fire-colored eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?
Roland the Minstrel Pig
Title | Roland the Minstrel Pig PDF eBook |
Author | William Steig |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2016-05-03 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1250112141 |
Roland the pig plays the lute and sings so sweetly that his friends never have enough of listening to him. He has bigger dreams, though, so he decides to take his show on the road and share his music with the world. He has a hard time finding an audience and is lonely at first, but then a fox named Sebastian appears and offers to take him to perform before the King. Little does Roland know, Sebastian actually plans on eating him. Just as Sebastian starts to lower Roland over a firepit to roast him and all seems lost, the King appears to save the day, and both Sebastian and Roland get the ending they deserve. Roland the Minstrel Pig is a classic picture book by Shrek creator William Steig.
Solomon the Rusty Nail
Title | Solomon the Rusty Nail PDF eBook |
Author | William Steig |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2013-07-30 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1466808977 |
Solomon the bunny can turn himself into a rusty nail! "Steig combines a tale of uncanny transformation with his distinctively animated illustrations...Children will love this bizarre tale with its humorous drawings and lively sense of fun." --Pointer, Kirkus Reviews "Beautifully written and illustrated by paintings reflecting the sunny colors of spring...A classic by a peerless artist."--Publishers Weekly
Bone Magic
Title | Bone Magic PDF eBook |
Author | Yasmine Galenorn |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2010-01-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101171235 |
The New York Times bestselling author of Demon Mistress returns with a new sensual Otherworld paranormal... Another equinox is here, and life's getting more tumultuous for the D'Artigo sisters. Smoky, the dragon of Camille's dreams, must choose between his family and her. Plus, the sisters can't locate the new demon general in town. And Camille's summoned to Otherworld, thinking she'll reunite with her long-lost soul mate Trillian. But once there, she must undergo a drastic ritual that will forever change her and those she loves.
Quest for the Spark
Title | Quest for the Spark PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Sniegoski |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 054514101X |
As the evil Nacht spreads his darkness across the valley, Tom and his friends, the Bone family, desperately try to find the Spark that will heal the Dreaming and save the world.
Bone By Bone
Title | Bone By Bone PDF eBook |
Author | Carol O'Connell |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 2008-12-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101078758 |
Brothers Oren and Josh disappear into the woods. Only Oren comes out. Twenty years later, the mystery of what happened to Josh is going to be exposed, and somebody is finally sending him home-bone by bone.