Bone: Out from Boneville
By: Jeff Smith
Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction
This graphic novel is about three cousins, Fone Bone, Phoney, and Smiley who are lost in a desert and separated from one another. Fone Bone encounters a lot of creatures, such as the evil rat creatures and the great red dragon, before befriending beautiful Thorne. They go to Thorne’s Gran'ma Ben’s house and stay there until the rat creatures try to attack again. Gran'ma Ben is successful at fighting them off and the dragon helps save Fone Bone and Thorne in the woods. When they go to town the next day, they discover that Phoney and Smiley have found each other and were working in a bar to pay off their debt to Lucius. However, Gran'ma Ben is able to convince him to let them off work for a bit to celebrate them being reunited once again.
This book would be a fun one to read with the class to teach about the characteristics of a graphic novel. Since graphic novels aren’t taught very often in schools it would be a good resource to show children the variety of ways that stories can be told. After reading, the book I would have students work in groups on a project to create a short graphic novel of their own. Their graphic novel would have to tell a short story and be animated. This project would last over a period of a few weeks so that they could have the chance to first come up with a good plot idea and then have time to animate their story. Each student would be responsible for different parts of the story.
This book would be a fun one to read with the class to teach about the characteristics of a graphic novel. Since graphic novels aren’t taught very often in schools it would be a good resource to show children the variety of ways that stories can be told. After reading, the book I would have students work in groups on a project to create a short graphic novel of their own. Their graphic novel would have to tell a short story and be animated. This project would last over a period of a few weeks so that they could have the chance to first come up with a good plot idea and then have time to animate their story. Each student would be responsible for different parts of the story.
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