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3.5 stars - It was enjoyable but I did think Big Johnson Bone got a bit tiresome after a while.
it was a good book. it had two story's in it. the main thing is smiley from the graphic novels has a camp in the woods and three little bones and smiley tells story's about a old famous bone.
Love it when little boy who take Smiley's hat and put it on. He get some dreaming as vision. Until to awoke and it happened in his dreams when Smiley tells them stories.
Smiley has agreed to take the Bone Scouts and Bartleby camping…but you can’t have camping without stories by the fire. With the Bone Scouts and Bartleby as his enchanted listeners, Smiley tells them the tales of the adventurer Big Johnson Bone and his venture into the Big Valley long before Smiley, Fone, and Phoney found it. Big Johnson Bone’s encountered changed the course of the Valley and altered the lives of Rat Creatures forever!Bone: Tall Tales is a compilation book which contains part of
Smiley Bone takes some Bone children camping where they proceed to tell tall tales around the fire. It's fun. Only the first 40 pages or so are new. The rest is filled out with the main story from Bone: Stupid Stupid Rat-Tails. It features Big Johnson Bone visiting the Valley where he rides a tornado and beats up rat creatures. He's also the reason why rat creatures no longer have tails.
Very solid. As funny as you'd expect of something from the Bone universe. Tall Tales is a collection of, well, tall tales, most of which take place before the main adventure and do not feature any of the cast you know and love if you read the series(minus the ones around the fire telling the tales). The stories are well done and entertaining and even give some insight into the main storyline. Sadly, though, this one didn't pack the same punch as the main series of books. I recommend it to other
The short stories were actually pretty cute. But they were overshadowed by the boring awfulness of Big Johnson Bone. It actually made Smiley seem pretty good. From an art point of view I think Bartleby is my favorite. This could have been worse.
Not anywhere close to the standard set by the main series run. Lots of juvenile fart jokes and a sequence that is a direct rip off of Pinocchio. Pass.
Reason for Reading: This is a Cybils '10 nominee and required reading for me as a panelist.I have never read a Bone book in my life before this. I actually have reading the series as one of my goals for next year. Fortunately, Tall Tales is a collection of short stories that happen before the events of the Bone series making them entirely readable for someone who hasn't a clue about the series itself.The book, which calls itself a "Companion" to the series is set in the here and now as Smiley an...
This was good. Just a bunch of tales that might have some connection to the main Bone story line. I'm still not sure putting Smiley in charge of children is a good idea. But better than introducing another character that is greedy selfish and only cares about others by accident. Oh well. Otherwise a good book.
2.5 stars. Bone: Tall Tales is not without its charm, but it is also not a necessary addition to the series. While fans may enjoy, Rose was a more interesting and worthy addition to the series than Tall Tales.
Another good book in the series 👍🏻
It was so good to be back, once more, in the Bones world. Really missed those fellas.Great collection of short stories. Enjoyed them all, especially first one, 'cause it brought us back to the beginning. Only wish it was longer.
I finished this probably a week ago before realizing I’d never go entered it. It’s a fun series of stories about Big Johnson Bone and the origins of the Jekk and some early interactions between the Bone ancestors and the creatures of the valley. Coda somewhere noted the significance of the American tall tale structure in these particular stories, which I find endearing for its mostly colorblind orientation (the bone characters, while definitively white, have they subjective quality of simple emo...
Some funny entertaiing stuff. Dfinitely more of a children's book than the rest of the Bone universe.
It was good
ReRead 29 February 2020---FINALLY done with Tall Tales. It wasn't a bad read, per se, but it felt . . . different from what I remembered of the original Bone, and not in a good way.Whereas the original Bone series seemed transcendent of the Adult/Kid categories, this spin-off definitely felt like it was geared more towards kids. Which, I suppose, makes sense, as most libraries classify it as a Youth Graphic Novel. But in doing so, I felt as if it lost some of the charm and flow that the original...
Smiley and Bartleby take the Bone Scouts camping and entertain the youngsters around the fire with some tall tales about a treasure hunt and the birth of Big Johnson Bone. One of the Bone Scouts then has dreams about the further adventures of Big Johnson Bone, how he lost an eating contest to a girl, survived a tornado ride, and freed a valley from the torments of the Rat Creatures.There were moments when this was outright hilarious, and moments when I was rolling my eyes at Big Johnson Bone's b...
it is a really good book has a lot of story in it if you love books that have a lot of stories this is your book.It tells about all of the books and how they meet and that one book tells all about the other books and I think that was cool.
REVIEWED October 1, 2010Rating: RecommendedRecommended Grade Levels: 3-12Smiley Bone takes the Bone Scouts camping. They pitch their tents after dark and sit by the campfire listening to Smiley tell stories about the past. First, Smiley tells them about the time Thorn tricked Fone Bone and Phoney Bone into doing the laundry by hiding a treasure map so they could find the “treasure”—their dirty laundry. The scouts beg for more stories. Smiley obliges by sharing some of the adventures of Big Johns...
