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by Clive King (Author), Edward Ardizzone (Illustrator)
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  • Paperback: 163 pages
  • Publisher: Puffin (1993)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0141301619
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141301617
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Enchanting, 20 Jun 2004
This review is from: Stig of the Dump (Puffin Books) (Paperback)
I have just sent this book as a present to my nephew. I remember spending hours reading it on summers days in my bedroom as a child. This totally captivated my imagination then and I can't think of many books that made more impact. The story has been described to death but the depth of imagination involved and the historic significance can't be overlooked. Loved it!
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars What is Stig?, 13 Jan 2008
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Barney stays with his grandmother and his sister, Lou, for the holidays. In the holidays Barney goes to the chalk pit where he first meets Stig on a very hot day! The problem is that nobody believes Stig is real until they see him. Lou, sees Stig one night when the two of them (Lou and Barney) go out and see a strange tribe of cave people. Barney spots Stig ad introduces him to Stig and the two of them become Honoured Guests at the celebration. Another time, Stig frightens her and she assumes that it is really Barney because they were going to a fancy dress party as, Lou a puma and him a cave man. Stig and Barney become heroes when they stop thieves from stealing from his grandmothers house and they recover the other treasures that the robbers took. Snargets are the roughest boys in town but when Stig takes the youngest Snarget, little Robin Hood, the other two turn as timid as kittens. They give Stig and Barney three gifts which they share. First they give some jelly babies and Stig likes them, second the give sherbets with liquorice straws which stig loves and last they give a packet of cigarettes which barney totally despises! I liked the bit when Barney fell through the roof of Stig's home at the first meeting and even though the two of them didn't understand each other much they were great friends! I would rate this book about 9/ 10 and I think that 9 - 12 year old would like it a lot if they like adventurous stories.

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Stig of the Dump, 3 Mar 2003
By Chris Knight (Helena Valley, WA Australia) - See all my reviews
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This book truly deserves to be rated as a modern classic.

It has everything, humour, wonderful descriptions from a child's point of view, a cracking concept and a great storyline.

This book is a sure-fire way to introduce a child into reading for themselves - walk them through the first chapter and they will be so captivated they will read the rest themselves or burst in the attempt.

Highly recommended - I would give it 5 stars but for the fact it is a little dated and some of the concepts would be lost on a modern child. Nevertheless it deserves at least 4½ stars.

Imagine falling in a disused quarry, now a rubbish dump (exciting enough in itself) but to find yourself confronted by a real live cave-boy, somehow transported 25,000 years forward in time. Stig (the cave boy) cannot speak (of course) in more than a few grunts, but that's not a problem, kids don't need spoken language to communicate. He is ingenious, brave and resourceful. The two of them get up to a whole heap of adventures culminating in a trip back in time one hot summer night to see Stigs tribe.

Read it and enjoy .. you won't be disappointed!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Stig of the Dump
A great book which i read back when I was at school. The film was recently on TV and my 9 year old daughter was engrossed in it! Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars memories
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now i have bought it for my own children, and i know they will get as much pleasure as i did from this great story.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent, super book that deserves 5 stars and nothing less
One of my favourite bits of this story is when Barney meets Stig by falling in the dump. Stig is a sort of cave man, except that he uses much different tools than a real cave man... Read more
Published on 13 April 2007 by nashwa

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice Childhood read; a bit like ET
I first read this book in school back in 1976 and really loved it. The story is about a small boy who goes to play in a chalk quarry near his grandmother's house and befriends a... Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars I always wanted my own Stig!
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Re-cycle and re-use is what we should be doing now .stig first showed us how. I walked into an eco-house the other day and the wall was exactly as described in the book with the... Read more
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