Books like The Amazing Bone

This is about Pearl the Pig. She is having the best spring afternoon ever. She is enjoying life after school walking all over until she comes to rest in the forest listening to the sounds and looking at the soft spring colors. She finds a bone that talks, it really talks and it’s smart. She and the bone decide to partner and off she goes home. Here the story gets dangerous. 1st, she is attacked by robbers and the bone scares them off. Then, she is captured by a fox and taken home to be eaten. The bone does not scare the fox one bit. He thinks it is marvelous. Pearl is terrified of being eaten. Finally, when Pearl is about to be slaughtered, the bone saves the day.William Steig has a wicked imagination and he puts the reader in a dangerous situation. He is a bold author. I enjoy his pictures of spring and how soft the world is. I enjoy Pearl and how much she appreciates nature around her. I enjoyed this story. This story caused a little bit of fear in the niece. She said she liked the story anyway. She gave this 4 stars. The nephew thought it was great fun. He knew that the fox would gobble up Pearl. I have seen my nephew be genuinely concerned when something gets hurt and he doesn’t like to watch things suffer or die on nature programs. He does feel things, but he can have a wicked sense of humor with books and life. He was glad that Pearl was saved and he thought that bone was pretty awesome. He said, there’s no such thing as a talking bone, is there? I said, likely not, but it’s a big strange world. He gave the story 5 stars.