Stig of the Dump: 60th Anniversary Edition (A Puffin Book)

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I loved this book! A magical story of friendship with its feet in reality for the most part, which makes it ever more delightful. First Edition, small personal name-stamp on inside wrapper; original pictorial wrappers, a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean copy. Puffin Original 196. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Recall’s a funny thing at the best of times and mine’s gotten seriously worse since I had my stroke. There were parts of this book I was reciting word-for-word along with the audiobook and there were other parts I didn’t remember at all. Part of the joy of rereading, I suppose. Parts of the story take place at different times of the year. Can you explain how things change throughout the seasons?

Other themes in the novel are the importance of friendship, education through experience, bullying and risk taking. The book opens with Barney falling over the edge of the chalk pit and adventurous children will find this attractive. This would need to be handled with care in a classroom situation. Think about what happens to Stig after the end of the story. Where does he go next? Will he ever meet Barney again? After reading Chapter 2 of the book, your LKS2 class will sort these openers and classify them focusing on noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition and time connectives.Another issue that Primary teachers will need to be aware of is the fact that the language in the book is not modern and may therefore present problems for younger readers. The book tells the story of eight year old Barney who stumbles across a solitary caveman called Stig in the dump at the bottom of his Grandmother's garden. Despite the barriers, both linguistic and cultural, that separate them, the two strike a friendship and embark on a series of exciting adventures, each of which both highlight and bridge the gaps between their vastly different worlds. All of the adventures take place in the modern world, with the exception of the final chapter when one night Barney and his sister Lou sneak out of their Grandmother's house and find themselves in Stig's prehistoric world. Together Barney, Lou, Stig and Dina the dog help Stig's tribe build a set of standing stones that Barney recognises as a weathered landmark from his own modern home, further cementing the links between their worlds that are built on in earlier chapters.

Barney and Stig use lots of different tools when they are building things. Make a safety poster to teach people how to use them carefully. We have differentiated this activity so you can choose which would best suit your class. Your class can highlight inverted commas, insert inverted commas, or insert them with help. Clive King. Author of Stig in The Dump. This is an original article separated from an issue of The Book & Magazine Collector publication, 2002. Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). First edition thus. 170pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. Illustrated cloth over boards. Previous owner's ex libris stamp and additional small notation on front free endpaper. In lightly soiled publisher's orange slipcase. Calling him Stig, Barney befriends this unusual individual, and the two share a series of adventures. Some more domestic (home improvements, bullies/gangs), and some rather daring and exciting (a real escaped leopard! thieves!).In this activity, your Year 3 / Year 4 class will read the sentences and insert the words from the word bank to complete each sentence. Make a character profile to describe Barney and / or Stig. What is their personality like? What are their favourite things? What are their hopes and dreams? In Chapter 4 Barney and Stig go hunting. Have a class debate to discuss the ‘for’ and ‘against’ arguments about hunting.

These extracts describe what it was like in Stig’s cave. Imagine that you are an estate-agent and it is your job to sell this cave. Using the information in the extracts above and any other useful information that you find in chapters 1 and 2, design a leaflet that will persuade someone to buy the cave. Remember to include: He returned with a post-war grant to Downing College, Cambridge, where he read English and Russian. The British Council offered him jobs, mostly concerned with teaching English, in Amsterdam, Belfast, Syria, Beirut, Dhaka and Madras (now Chennai). Many of these places provided settings for the stories he was writing. In 1973, he became a full-time writer, heartened by the growing popularity of his third book, Stig of the Dump. Clive lives in Norfolk with his family. Puffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo: A Puffin Book. There are 20 titles to collect in the series, listed below, all with exciting new covers and fun-filled endnotes. I read this as a class book and every day I would look forward to reading it!! It is so good, I recommend it to everyone.

Curriculum

Stig of the Dump is a children's novel by Clive King which was first published in the United Kingdom in 1963. It is regarded as a modern children's classic and is often read in schools. [1] It was illustrated by Edward Ardizzone and has been twice adapted for television, in 1981 and in 2002. It was featured in a broadcast as an adaptation on BBC Home Service for schools in November 1964, and later on the BBC series Blue Peter. Thought I’d re-read this for the first time since I was a kid, in honour of Clive King, whose death at age 94 was announced today, 13 July 2018.