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| Bone Volume 1: Out From Boneville | 
 enlarge | Author: Jeff Smith
Publisher: Scholastic
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 1918
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.4
ISBN: 0439706408
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9780439706407
ASIN: 0439706408
Publication Date: February 1, 2005
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Product Description
The BONE adventures tell the story of a young bone boy, Fone Bone, and his two cousins, Phoney Bone and Smiley Bone, who are banned from their homeland of Boneville. When the cousins find themselves mysteriously trapped in a wonderful but often terrifying land filled with secrets and danger - and special new friendships - they are soon caught up in adventures beyond their wildest dreams. In OUT FROM BONEVILLE, the three Bone cousins are separated and lost in a vast uncharted desert. One by one, they find their way into a deep, forested valley where they come face to face with...
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 Excellent work by Jeff Smith February 23, 2005
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
If you haven't read the work of Jeff Smith, you are missing out on not only one of the greatest series of comics in recent memory, but what may be the greatest fantasy epic since the work of J.R.R. Tolkien. I highly recommend picking up Bone in any of its editions, although I lean toward "The Complete Bone" myself. However, there is one significant advantage of the edition listed here that none of the reviewers have mentioned yet (that I've spotted, anyway): This is the first release of Bone in full colour, as opposed to the black-and-white art contained in the previous tomes of the Bone series (with the exception of Rose). This series is so excellent that I'm tempted to get this edition despite already owning the complete black-and-white edition, and I cannot think of higher praise than that.
Thank you for giving us this wonderful treat March 27, 2005
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is one of the best comic books of all time. Read it and you will be undoubtably amazed by this funny and unforgetable tale of the three bone cousins. So what are you waiting for? Go ahead and buy it.
 A funny, entertaining trip from the world of reality December 8, 2004
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Jeff's Smith's Bone is an introduction book, a start with no finish. It sets up the situation and sends the reader into an unpredictable fantasy world, with characters both classic and ridiculous. Driven from their home, three bone creatures related by blood are lost in the desert and pushed off a cliff by a swarm of angry locusts and into a valley of mystery, danger, and even love.
Their diverse characters have all the markings of a standard comedy team. There is a care-free Smiley Bone, who casually points out impending doom and continues to smoke his cigar. Then there is the scheming and crafty Phoney Bone who causes all the trouble and ultimately gets his hand caught in every cookie jar he comes across. Finally you have the "hero" of the tale, Fone Bone, a veritable straight-man if there ever was one. His charming and honest nature sets the overall tone in the book, and it is his unerring moral compass that keeps the three of them bound by the same fate, both in and out, of hot water.
Separated from each other, the plight of his three varied and lovable "bone cousins" follows Fone as he struggles to reunite them as the story begins to unfold. Smith then uses picturesque, highly predictable behavior patterns and exaggerated reactions in and from the cousin's to draw the reader into to their characters. It is Fone's giving nature combined with Phoney's opportunism and Smiley's nonchalance that does this. It has the effect of giving the reader the sympathetic urge to smack Phoney, give Smiley a high five, and reassure Fone that everything will be OK in the end. To trap the reader in the tale, he uses a secondary group of characters ranging from a cigarette smoking red dragon to a muscle bound grandma, to a dainty, young vixen in a hot spring. With their animated qualities, the supporting cast leaves the reader wondering about the next event or laughing in amazement.
Unfortunately the ending has no resolution. It finishes on a cliffhanger, cunningly trying to draw you in to buy the next episode. The long and short of it: Don't buy this book for your 8-13 year old if you think you'll be able to get away with only getting him or her this one. Otherwise it's a funny, entertaining trip from the world of reality.
Reviewed by Mike Dorsey for Flamingnet Book Reviews
Please visit www.flamingnet.com for more preteen, teen and young adult book reviews and recommendations.
What kids say February 14, 2005
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
Bone is an awesome book!I thought it was hilarious! It has great pictures. I give it a thumbs up!
Signed,
Mystery Girl
Bones Bones Bones! March 10, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Bone, by Jeff Smith, is an adventurous book about a lost trio that got split up in a dessert. Fone Bone has to find his friends before two furry monsters eat him! If you like funny comics and strange adventures this is your book! 138 pages of eye-pulling comics are a hysterical way to start your day. If you like this book you will LOVE Jeff Smith's others. Matt Groening (The creator of the Simpsons) says Bone is a great read! Heads up Garfield, you've got a rival!
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