The Great Cow Race
Fone Bone and his cousins plan to return home after visiting the village of Barrelhaven with Thorn and Gran'ma Ben. But Phoney risks everything on one last get-rich-quick scheme for the town's annual Great Cow Race.
As usual, Phoney's plans go disastrously awry, and Boneville seems further away than ever. Meanwhile, ominous signs indicate that a war is brewing, and Fone finds himself helping his friends defend their valley from a formidable enemy.
Eisner Award for Best Serialized Story (1994)
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.