- Children's stories, Fiction, Pigs, Juvenile fiction
On her way home from school, Pearl finds an unusual bone that has unexpected powers.
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Classical in form, effortless, spare and warm.
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
- sparerichly built
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- William Steig, William Steig
- First published
- 1976
- Pages
- 32
- Publisher
- Hyōronsha, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, Square Fish
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- Spanish, English, Chinese, Japanese
- ISBN
- 9780140502473
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“It was a brilliant day, and instead of going straight home from school, Pearl dawdled.”
William Steig /ˈstaɪɡ/ (November 14, 1907 – October 3, 2003) was an American cartoonist, illustrator and writer of children's books, best known for the picture book Shrek!, which inspired the film series of the same name, as well as others that included Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Abel's Island, and Doctor De Soto. He was the U.S. nominee for both of the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Awards, as a children's book illustrator in 1982 and a writer in 1988.
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