I thoroughly enjoyed this story.  It is done in such a masterful way that even though it is a bit long, it sails by.  Pearl is a young pig still in school.  On a bight sunny day, she takes a picnic and finds a bone that once fell out of a witch’s basket. This amazing bone could talk.  It was very helpful in scaring away the robbers that attacked with knives and guns. But the Fox was smart.  He saw the bone and how amazing it was.  He wanted it for himself and Pearl for dinner. Literally! A pignapping happens, but the bone still saves the day.  This book is heavily banned.  The reasons range from witchcraft and the occult to violence and kidnapping.  I get why parents complain, this book is a bit more macabre wrapped in pretty paper than stories are now.  But the story is lovely.  It’s a folk tale that could be told again and again and again and kids would be on the edge of their seat every single time.