The Amazing Bone

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4.5 ⭐ I thoroughly enjoyed this story. It is done in such a masterful way that even though it is a bit long, it sails by. Pearl is a young pig still in school. On a bight sunny day, she takes a picnic and finds a bone that once fell out of a witch‘s basket. This amazing bone could talk. It was very helpful in scaring away the robbers that attacked with knives and guns. But the Fox was smart. He saw the bone and how amazing it was. ⬇

LibrarianRyan . He wanted it for himself and Pearl for dinner. Literally! A pignapping happens, but the bone still saves the day. This book is heavily banned. The reasons range from witchcraft and the occult to violence and kidnapping. I get why parents complain, this book is a bit more macabre wrapped in pretty paper than stories are now. But the story is lovely. It‘s a folk tale that could be told again and again and again and kids would be on the edge 2y

LibrarianRyan of their seat every single time.

#BBRC #Bannedbooks 2y

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Kmacthelibrarian

The Amazing Bone | William Steig

#Storytime #older #weird

MatchlessMarie

The Amazing Bone | William Steig

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Just now posting yesterday‘s reads. I listened to the Meryl Streep audio, but there is also one read by John Lithgow I will have to listen to sometime. #WinterGames #TeamGameSleighers #20in4 Just one lonely word for #WGWordSearch 😅 6 words for #TreasureHunt

Clwojick, StayCurious, Andrew65

Andrew65 Well done 👏👏👏 3y

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JoslynB

The Amazing Bone | William Steig

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The Amazing Bone is a MF picture book by William Steig that has won the Caldecott award. Pearl is a young female pig who decides to take a detour on her way home from school. She finds a mysterious bone that leads to an unexpected friendship and a wacky adventure that even her parents cannot believe. This book is good for an AS so readers can become familiar with Steig's other books and make connections.

JoslynB https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/blog-posts/ruth-manna/william-steig-author-s... UDL 3.2 highlight patterns, critical features, big ideas, and relationships and ESOL 44 Focus on thinking skills; predict, categorize, classify, observe and report (oral-written-pictorial), sequence, summarize are applicable for this book. #ucflae3414su20 4y

DrSpalding This is a new book for me. Did you know that this author is the original creator of Shrek? He wrote and illustrated a story about a green ogre and inevitably it was turned into the Shrek that we know in the movies! 4y

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jb72

The Amazing Bone | William Steig

so-so

#scarathlon #teamstoker

6 points - book read and participation

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jb72 @TheReadingMermaid 5y

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emilykwilkins

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The amazing bone by William Steig is a Caldecott honor award winning F book where Pearl finds a magic bone that can create any sound or language. She takes the bone with her and goes on an adventure on her way back home from school. This book would be great for for S in the class room. The link below will take you to a discussion guide that you can use in the classroom along with this book.
http://www.scholastic.com/browse/collateral.jsp?id=32383

emilykwilkins UDL 2.4 Promote understanding across languages EL Teach to two objectives, language and content 7y

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RebeccaH

The Amazing Bone | William Steig

This is one weird kids' book. It's teaching my 3yo cool words like "dawdled" and "converse" and "gaffer."

shawnmooney If you feel like going down a Steig rabbit hole, I recommend Roger Angell's lovely essay on him, 'The Minstrel Steig' in The New Yorker (20-2-1995 issue) and reprinted in Angell's recent collection 'This Old Man.' 9y

RebeccaH Ooh, cool, thanks @shawnmooney ! Good to know! 9y

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