It's a bright and beautiful spring day, and Pearl, a pig, is dawdling on her way home from school. Most unexpectedly, she strikes up an acquaintance with a small bone. "You talk?" says Pearl. "In any language," says the bone. "And I can imitate any sound there is." (Its former owner was a witch.) Pearl and the bone immediately take a liking to each other, and before you know it she is on her way home with the bone in her purse, left open so they can continue their conversation. Won't her parents be surprised when she introduces her talking bone!But before that happy moment comes, the resourceful bone must deal with a band of highway robbers in Halloween masks and, worse, a fox who decides that Pearl will be his main course at dinner that night. And deal it does, with gambits droll and thrilling.
猪小姐小珠子偶然与一根会说话的骨头交上了朋友,她要回家告诉爸爸妈妈这个惊喜的消息。可是,他俩没到家以前,这根会说话的骨头要先对付一群戴面具的强盗,还要对付一只要把小珠子当晚餐吃的狐狸。这两场斗法又好玩儿又惊险!
By William Steig, Hardcover, Simplified or Traditional Chinese Characters, 30 pages, 11"x8.8"