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John the Skeleton
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Notes From Your Bookseller
A feast for the imagination, this quirky tale about a classroom skeleton retiring to a life on a farm is a fun story for five to eight-year-olds that like whimsical illustrations and find joy in the everyday things.
2025 Mildred L. Batchelder Award Winner
2025 Kirkus Prize Finalist
2025 USBBY Outstanding International Book
2022 Bologna Children's Book Fair Illustrators Exhibition winner
2021 The White Ravens catalog
2021 Tartu Prize for Children’s Literature
Everyone deserves a quiet, restful retirement. But for John, a newly retired classroom skeleton, life is just beginning. When John is adopted by Grams and Gramps and leaves the classroom to live on their farm, every day is an exciting new adventure: John...