This Saturday is Jeff Smith [2]'s birthday! What better time to familiarize yourself with the writer and illustrator of Bone [3]? The series is widely popular and features the Bone cousins and their adventures outside of Boneville. The series is about growing up and leaving home and entails a number of adventures that you will surely enjoy and get a laugh from.
Bone [4] is a recommended family read by Voice of Youth Advocates [5] and is considered one of the ten all-time graphic novels [6] by Time [7]! Also, check out Scholastic's Bone page [8] for an interactive treat!
Have you read Bone? If not, why haven't you started the adventure?!
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Here are the Bone titles by volume number:
- Out From Boneville [9]
- The Great Cow Race [10]
- Eyes of the Storm [18]
- The Dragonslayer [12]
- Rock Jaw: Master of the Eastern Border [13]
- Old Man's Cave [14]
- Ghost Circles [15]
- Treasure Hunters [16]
- Crown of Horns [17]
Smith has also written and drawn Little Mouse Gets Ready [19], Rasl [20], Shazam! The Monster Society of Evil [21].
Information retrieved from Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2009 and Boneville [3].
- Childrens [22]
- Graphic Novels [23]
- Teens [24]
