Looking for more resources from Puffin? Take a look at our Stigs Den Colouring Sheet. Or, explore another brilliant title using our 'The Great Dream Robbery' Word Mat here! What is ‘Stig of the Dump’ about? The book was turned into a TV show in the 1980s. Watch some of it and write a review. How does it compare to the book?

It was lovely to relive the plot. And my son didn't have a problem following the story, the language wasn't so very different to any contemporary book. Barney is an 'everyboy', a bit of a loner, who discovers, when staying at his Grandma's, that the nearby chalk pit hides a surprising secret. A hidden den, a strange boy.... wearing rabbit fur, speaking his own language of grunts. A cave boy? The central theme of the book is a wonderful story of friendship and trust between Barney and Stig, despite the vast differences that separate them. As well as allowing children to identify with and engage with the story, the imaginative writing from a child's perspective also provides various outlets for them to develop their reading, writing and even numeracy skills. One example of this is that Barney often consciously counts items he's found in the dump, and the story also makes good use of adjectives to describe item's properties. Your children will read Chapter 8 of the book and answer the questions based on their knowledge and understanding. The questions are mainly retrieval and inference. Making inferences and predictions about characters is also an important part of the 2014 national curriculum for English. The guidelines state that children in KS2 should learn to: Stig of the Dump - brings Clive King's story to life". Topologika.com. Archived from the original on 4 May 2011 . Retrieved 22 October 2009.Stig of the Dump tells the story of a boy who discovers a cave man living in a dump in the local chalk pits near his granny's house. The two become friends and enjoy lots of building and creating using the left over materials in the dump. Along the course of the story they build a chimney, see off some house robbers and help the zoo capture a leopard. The story ends with a magical experience where the children are transported to stone age Britain to witness the creation of Stone Henge by stone age peoples. In this case, I found I still really enjoyed it, although it held a couple of surprises. I had completely forgotten it was set a few towns away from where I live, for starters, which isn’t something you’d think I’d forget but my memory is famously awful. (Sometimes I wonder why I bother reading at all, my recall is so bad, but then I remember it’s because I enjoy it at the time.) 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. We can never be truly sure if Stig is in Barney's imagination, his sister and Grandmother don't seem to believe him. It's fascinating to both watch how Stig lives and makes his own world, and how he and Barney interact and communicate. An adverb is a word that describes a verb. In the following sentences taken from Chapter 3 of Stig of the Dump, your Year 3 / Year 4 class will underline the adverb and then write their own sentences underneath, using the same adverb.

Your class will read the extract and learn more about the physical appearance of Stig and also think deeper into the inferences than can be made. At that time he didn't have much interest in books but there was something about this one that he loved. The social commentary is very entertaining. Barney is clearly a bit of a posh boy, from an upper middle class family. There's a fox hunt, which he's too young to join, but he decides to go unofficially with Stig. Things don't go to plan when Stig kills a pheasant, but refuses to kill a fox when he has the chance. Barney is worried because killing pheasants isn't very sporting, but Stig communicates to him that foxes don't taste good, whereas pheasants do. And of course Stig's logic makes more sense - he kills for food, not for sport. This book is the story of a boy called Barney who finds a cave man living in a dump in the local chalk pits. Stig of the Dump as he is called, becomes Barney’s friend. After meeting Stig, Barney tells his grandmother and sister Lou about him but nobody believes him. Stig becomes a secret friend until he is also discovered by the Snarget boys.

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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. Barney teaches Stig lots of new skills. Can you choose one of them and write a set of instructions to teach somebody else too?

Barney and Lou do not share their adventures with anyone, and their parents never realise the truth of Stig's existence, although they jokingly talk about him as a kind of magical being that can fix particularly "odd jobs". It is left unclear whether Barney sees much more of Stig, or even whether Stig stays in the rapidly-filling rubbish dump. A figure that resembles Stig is sighted working with junk in various locations around the area; but the book concludes that "perhaps it was only a relative of his", suggesting that Stig may not be the only caveman alive in the modern world. rummaged, toppling, bolted, relief, weather-beaten, spire, pylons, pursuit, exclaimed, grazing, poised, mound and restrain.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. This was my favourite book as a 7/8 year old in primary school (so 35 years ago!), and now my son is 7 (and an above average reader) I have bought it for him and he LOVES it! So pleased to have been able to get it for him, such a descriptive and engaging story! Barney is a solitary little boy, given to wandering off by himself. One day he is lying on the edge of a disused chalk-pit when it gives way and he lands in a sort of cave. Here he meets a boy wearing a rabbit skin and speaking in grunts. He names him Stig. Nobody believes Barney when he tells his family all about Stig, but they become great friends, learning each others ways and embarking on a series of unforgettable adventures.

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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. 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. 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. I knew beforehand that this was a book about a boy who finds a caveman in a dump and they become friends - it's quite a well-known book. What I wasn't expecting was how creatively the author would use this whole concept. Stig has built himself a den and he uses the things people throw onto the dump. Barney is fascinated at how old junk can be used in completely different ways from how it was intended. Stig also doesn't talk, so Barney has to find ways to communicate with him. Meeting Stig causes Barney to start to think in new, creative ways - he wants to help Stig build a chimney and windows, for instance, and has to think of an unconventional way to do this. It's also a bit strange and amusing for him that Stig is so tough and strong on the one hand, but also so unfamiliar with everyday things on the other hand, so Barney starts to see things from a new perspective as he has to explain them (and without words) to Stig.