Stig of the Dump - Clive King

Oh this is such a marvellous book. This is childhood wrapped up in cardboard, paper and ink. Imagine if you will you are a young boy. Imagine becoming friends with a real live caveman! Cast your mind back to those hot, hot summer days, that we never get any more. Do you remember the boredom of not having anything to do - how you would kill to have those days of 'boredom' back now, eh? Wouldn't you just love to experience those days again? In the book Barney is the young boy who is on school holidays. One day he has a bit of an accident and falls through the roof of a den in an old quarry - it is bringing it all back now isn't it, the ...  Read the complete review

Story time... Remember that? The teacher reading to the class at the end of the day? I don't. Not really, I'm too old. :-( There are some vague glimmers though - I can remember some of the books that were read to us, for example:- Three Men In A Boat, James and the Giant Peach, and Stig of the Dump... So when I heard that the BBC were showing a new TV series based on Clive King's 1963 children's classic, I thought that would be a good excuse to read it again. Besides, I had to consider it for one of the last two places in my Top Ten Children's Books ops. (It'll be a while yet, so don't hold your breath!) ...  Read the complete review