1977년 칼데콧 명예도서상 수상!

학교가 끝나고 여기저기 돌아다닌 적이 있나요?

그런 어린이들에게 이 책은 흥미진진한 이야깃거리를 선물합니다. 

봄날, 꼬마 돼지 펄은 이곳저곳을 구경하며 걷다가 숲 속에서 말하는 뼈다귀를 우연히 만나게 되지요.

펄과 말하는 뼈다귀는 강도를 만나고, 펄을 잡아먹으려는 여우도 만났어요! 

그런데 이 뼈다귀가 마술을 부리는 게 아니겠어요!

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.