Out from Boneville
In Out from Boneville, the three Bone cousins – Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone – are separated and lost in a vast, uncharted desert. One by one, they find their way into a deep, forested valley filled with wonderful and terrifying creatures. Eventually, the cousins are reunited at a farmstead run by tough Gran'ma Ben and her spirited granddaughter Thorn. But little do the Bones know, there are dark forces conspiring against them, and their adventures are only just beginning!
Angoulême Festival Award for Alph-art Best Foreign Album (1996); Harvey Award for Best Graphic Album of Previously Published Work (2005); Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: Reprint (2005)
About the Bone Series
Books in series order
- 1.Out from Boneville(1993)
- 2.The Great Cow Race(1994)
- 3.Eyes of the Storm(1995)
- 4.The Dragonslayer(1997)
- 5.Rock Jaw, Master of the Eastern Border(1998)
- 6.Old Man's Cave(1999)
- 7.Ghost Circles(2001)
- 8.Treasure Hunters(2002)
- 9.Crown of Horns(2004)
- +Bone Handbook(2010)
- +Bone: Coda(2016)
- +Bone: More Tall Tales(2023)
- +Bone: Tall Tales(2010)
- +Rose(2002)
Reading age: 8+ years
This series should be read in order.
The Bone adventures tell the story of a young bone boy, Fone Bone, and his two cousins, Phoney Bone and Smiley Bone, who are exiled 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're soon caught up in adventures beyond their wildest dreams.
This epic adventure series in the tradition of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings is credited with breathing new life into the graphic novel format and introducing successive generations of readers to the wonder of narrative comic books.