The Story of Frog Belly Rat Bone, 10th Anniversary Edition, by Timothy Basil Ering
The Story of Frog Belly Rat Bone by Timothy Basil Ering is ten years old! But, it's new to me...

The Story of Frog Belly Rat Bone (which is available in PAPERBACK) begins in "a dull, gray, endless place called Cementland" where there was a boy who "had a singular wish: he wished to find a treasure." He searched through the "heaping piles of junk that collected around Cementland. He found greasy toaster ovens, broken TVs and smelly socks. But no treasure." Finally, his efforts are rewarded when he finds a "strange and wonderful box" with a note attached that read, "Put my wondrous riches into the earth and enjoy." The boy finds the box is filled with bright and colorful packets that hold "hundreds of tiny gray specks." The boy is disappointed, but he follows the instructions and plants the specks. When he returns to the specks the next day he is horrified to find the specks have been dug up! He rushes to the junk pile and from smelly socks, moldy pillow stuffing and scraggly wires he creates Frog Belly Rat Bone, King of the Treasures, the monster who will protect the specks and a guy who seems to know exactly how to tend to the specks. On guard the very next night, Frog Belly Rat Bone encounters the thieves - a rat, a rabbit and a fruit fly. What happens next is a little bit frightening, definitely unexpected and, in the end, absolutely marvelous, as the illustration below shows.
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The Story of Frog Belly Rat Bone has also been adapted for the stage byRogue Artists Ensemble!
Other works by Timothy Basil Ering
Finn Throws a Fit is available in PAPERBACK!!
Middle Grade and Young Adult Novels Illustrated
by Timothy Basil Ering
Wild Boy by Mary Losure is the true story of a boy who was found in the woods in 1798 in southern France. Can't wait to read this one!
Snook Alone is the story of a loyal terrier who finds himself stranded on an island after a ferocious storm. Available in paperback!
Source: Review Copy