The Wretched Stone is a children's picture book written and illustrated by the American author Chris Van Allsburg.

Told from the perspective of Captain Randall Ethan Hope, the crew of the Rita Anne left for a voyage, enjoying each other's company.

About a month later, they find a strange, glowing, cubic stone on a smelly, exotic island without animals.

When the stone stops glowing, the captain reverts the crew back to normal by playing violin and reading to them.

In Santa Pangol, each crew member finds a ship to return home, though some of them still have some aftereffects of the stone, as they like bananas a lot.