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Stig of the Dump
Stig of the Dump
Stig of the Dump
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Stig of the Dump

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A boy befriends a young caveman in this modern children’s classic of friendship and adventure.
 
Barney isn’t supposed to go near the chalk pit. His grandmother and sister both told him the edge could give way and he could fall in—but what else is he supposed to do on a miserable gray day?
 
It’s not long before Barney falls into the pit and bumps his head. But where he lands is more than an old garbage dump: It’s a home. There’s a little hut built out of discarded junk, and more surprisingly, there’s a boy, about Barney’s age, inside. He speaks in grunts instead of English, wears a rabbit-skin loincloth, has shaggy black hair, and might be named something that sounds like “Stig.” Barney befriends him immediately.
 
Together, Barney and Stig go on all sorts of adventures, building a chimney for Stig’s hut, joining a foxhunt, stopping robbers, and catching a leopard escaped from the circus!
 
Barney and Stig’s escapades have been delighting children for more than fifty years, while addressing important topics such as bullying, recycling, and language barriers. This timeless classic is sure to captivate readers young and old with its wit, imagination, and sense of adventure.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateSep 6, 2016
ISBN9781504037686
Stig of the Dump
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Clive King

Clive King (1924–2018) was born in Richmond, Surrey, and attended King’s School, Rochester; Downing College, Cambridge; and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. From 1943 to 1947, King served in the Royal Navy, voyaging to Iceland, the Russian Arctic, India, Sri Lanka, Australia, the East Indies, Malaysia, and Japan. Civilian postings as an officer of the British Council took him to Amsterdam, Belfast, Aleppo, Damascus, Beirut, Dhaka, and Madras (now Chennai). Several of these locales provided material for his nineteen children’s stories, but his best-known book, Stig of the Dump, was written during an educational job in Rye in East Sussex.   King married, divorced, and married again, and is survived by three children, eight grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    A silly little story about a boy who finds a caveman living in the local dump and has adventures alongside him, but of course the grownups don't believe that Stig (said caveman) is real.Simple, silly, and fun.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Didn't I love this book as a kid? A dump full of useless junk which Barney and Stig turned into furniture, weapons and .. a neat glass jar window. The battle with the three bullies makes me laugh out loud every time I read it.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I read this back in year 2 when I was about 6 I suppose - it was a school book. I remember thinking it was okay. My mum at the time, thought why was her daughter reading some stupid book about a dump? Yeah well, I think she ended up enjoying it more then I did because she stayed up all night reading it.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I read this when I was little and in school and I was fascinated by it. Aside from being one of the best books that I got to read in school as a young child, I loved that Stig and Barney made all sorts of things from rubbish. It made me want to go out and make my own inventions, or to build a den to hide in. It really is a wonderful book, brilliant for adventurous children and adults alike.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Best book ever read it 3 or 4 times its bbbbbbbbbbbbbrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilllllllllliiiiiiiiiaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnntttttttttttif i had to read something it would be stig of the dump i absolutely love this book and u may too
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    A delightfully little story about a eight year old boy, Barney. He is a curious boy, with a desire to explore, and is told not to go too close to the edge of the quarry. He does get too close though, and falls down to the bottom. He lands in a cave cut into the chalk, and there looking at him is a short hairy man, with sparkling black eyes, and wearing animal furs. The start to communicate using gestures and grunt, and barney decides to call him Stig. And so begins a series of adventures with his new friend. They raid the rubbish dump at the bottom, disturb a fox hunt, and capture an escaped animal from a circus amongst other scrapes.

    Part of a challenge where you had to read a book from your childhood, this was one that I had fond memories of, and amazingly I could still remember details of the story several decades on. Timeless storytelling at its best.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    A favourite from my childhood, still brought out occasionally
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    A charming story about eight-year-old Barney who spends holidays with his grandmother, explores a local chalk pit and makes friends with the cave-boy Stig who lives in a shelter at the bottom and makes tools and weapons from the accumulated detritus. Many adventures ensue, and there's also some midsummer magic.

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