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Title: The Amazing Bone (Reading Rainbow Book)
ISBN: 0374403589
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Publicate Date: 1993-04-01
Publish: 1993-04-01
List Price: $6.95
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
Format: Paperback
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1: Not for young children; bizarre story for no age
I whole heartedly agreed with the reviewer who said "not for young children". I bought this story unpreviewed thinking it sounded interesting. Thank goodness I did preview it before I read it to my kids as I am sure I'd have two very upset little ones!! The image of the robbers putting a gun to the pig's head!! What in the world was this author & illustrator thinking???!! And it gets more serious when it really looks like the pig will lose her life to the wolf who wants to eat her. I could never imagine throwing a book away until I came acorss this one. There is no moral or lesson at all in this story, though you'd think there would be one. The bone doesn't know it's magical until the very last minute when the wolf, (who wasn't scared off by the bone's put-on scary voice as the robbers were) is about to cook her up for dinner. The bone speaks some magical words & saves the pig, but that's the end. The pig goes home & tells her parents who don't beleive her. The pig keeps the bone for the rest of her life next to her bed. Reading Rainbow should get a demerit for having this book associated with them and I can't see what Caldecott was thinking about this book either. I can't imagine what age this would be for or good for. Ugh. Awful. The worst book (story) I've ever come across.
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2: What on earth?!
I rarely leave reviews and I can't believe I am in a situation to say these words, but what on earth was this guy smoking?!
Let alone this book is absurd, many masterpieces are, but this is down right messed up! I have never ever read a worst children's book in my life and this is the only reason I write this review right after I read it to my kids, because I want to warn people who are even considering to pay for it. If you are that adamant to read this awful, disturbingly scary, delusional and the worst-kind-of-wrong book, go take it out from the library and buy your kids something nice and comforting. Trust me, they'll need it after you read this story to them.
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3: Not for Little Ones
My 3 year old is fascinated by the concept that we all have bones in our bodies, so I hastily selected this book right before Christmas without really reading it. Big mistake! The plot heavily features armed robbery, kidnapping, false imprisonment, and intent to murder the main character. A little heavy for her, in my opinion. She seemed to take it in stride, but I was apalled.
Also, since my main reason for choosing this book was in response to my daughter's interest in bones as part of our anatomy, I was disappointed that there is no explanation where the bone in this story comes from...is it a human bone or an animal's bone? How did it come to be able to talk? And why is this magic object a bone and not an amazing rock or feather or something else?
On the other hand, the illustrations are lovely and the story is interesting, though odd, for older children.
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4: A classic!
My daughter and I read this together many times & loved it. My students (grades 1st on up) were always mesmerized when I read them this story. They loved quoting the magic words. Now I give it as a gift whenever I can. One of Steig's best.
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5: Wonderful, and no less so for being a bit strange
Our two children, ages 3 and 6-1/2, absolutely LOVE this story, and we love reading it to them, as it is a very fun book to read aloud. I suppose it contains some edgy elements for a children's book: violence is threatened several times, and Pearl (the darling protagonist/pig) is almost eaten by a fox -- but is this any more violent than, say, The Three Little Pigs? As William Steig says several times in this beautiful, enjoyable tale, "I didn't make the world." That being said, I suppose this story isn't for everyone, and I wouldn't recommend it for children who are especially young or easily scared, but having read a TON of children's book over the last six years, this is one of the few for which I've been moved to write a recommendation. Honestly, just hearing my kids running around exclaiming "Have you no shame, Sir?!" to each other (and everyone else) and then bursting into giggles was worth any talk explaining why foxes want to eat pigs. I'd give it six stars if I could, but then, I didn't make the world.
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