Bone Volume 1: Out From Boneville
Bone Volume 1: Out From Boneville
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Bone is a Really Bizarre Trip Through a Forest!
Bone is a dog? (I think) He and his cousins are trapped traveling through a desert and a forest to escape trouble his cousin got into. Now they are lost and trying to survive in the forest. A freak snowstorm (snow that plops out of the sky in a huge layer) causes havoc and meeting a beautiful girl named Thorn and her grandma save the day. Watch out for the giant rats! Funny, strange story.
5 Stars Parent and Child Review
A second-grade boy says, “Bone is the best book ever! It might have scary things, but it is fun too. It has a lot of adventures in it which makes it exciting. If you are a comic book lover, then you’ll love these books.”
His mother says, “This series absolutely captivated my son and was single-handedly responsible for helping him catch the reading bug. The ‘to be continued’ format meant that he couldn’t wait to read on.
The one challenge to the fact that your child won’t want to put these down is that you must have the next volume on hand, and sooner than expected.
Libraries have a very hard time keeping this series on the shelf. Learn from our experience that the suspense of waiting for the following book to be returned is simply too frustrating.
You might as well purchase the series. It will be worth it. Many friends have wanted to borrow them.
And I well imagine that my boy will want to read them all over again in the very near future, especially since the characters are fascinating on both simple and direct levels and with very complex depths.
ALERT: Parents should know that there are indeed dark plot lines and images, so the series may not be age appropriate for other 7 year olds. But, for kids such as mine, this is most appealing.
As should be clear from his critique, these do offer all the appeal of comic books. However, parents and teachers will be much happier about the literary merits in “Bone” than with the vast majority of graphic formats. ”
4 Stars You know it will be a great series.
This first installment in the Bone series isn’t the best of firsts, but you know when you see the artistry and the characters that this is going to be something great. So, read on.
5 Stars Very Surprised!
I read a lot of graphic novels, more adult than anything else. I read the reviews and decided to give the Bone series a try. At first I was worried that I might have wasted my money. Boy, was I wrong! After reading a few chapters, I was very surprised to find that I couldn’t put it down. I have since bought the rest of the books in the series and love every one of them! They are very well written and the art work is top notch. I highly reccomend this series for everyone.
5 Stars An impressive start to an epic journey!
There is not much that can’t be said about Jeff Smith’s “Bone”. The first volume serves as a great introduction to a remarkable cast of characters and lays the foundation for a story which combines sword and sorcery with classic literature references to such novels as “Moby Dick”. This story is truly one of a kind and contains detailed fleshed out characters who bring levity to the dangerous parts of the story and who bring wit and warmth to the light parts. Jeff Smith created something special when he set about writing “Bone” and this epic should be enjoyed by anyone who fancies his or herself a lover of graphic novels or the written word.
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