When I was ten, my favourite book was... Guest Blog by Andy Hill
Stig of the Dump by Clive King
When you go to play outside, how far are you allowed to go? To the end of the street? Maybe sometimes you go around the corner or over to the park, where your friends can go. Perhaps you like riding your bike? You go further and further and further, to places you don’t know. Who knows what you will find around the corner. New people, new things to see, you just never know.
Of course you always have to stay where it is safe. That’s
why the people that care for you set rules, so they can make sure everything is
good, just like the people that cared for them.
That’s why books are great. You can read about great
adventures that people like you could have. In books as well things can happen
that just are silly in the real world, but still it can be fun to imagine.
My favourite book, Stig of the Dump, is all about that. It’s
an adventure just waiting for you to read at home on a cold boring winter
night, or in bed with a torch.
In our book Barney is on his summer holidays, which he spends
with his grannie, at her house in the country. He is free to go where he wants
and often likes to have a good poke around where he shouldn’t. He really likes
to look at what are called chalk pits, places where once big holes were dug in
the ground to get at stones needed to build roads. One day Barney pokes just a
bit too far and falls into a dangerous hole.
When he wakes up he is with a strange looking man. Don’t
worry, he’s a friendly man and very helpful. He grunts his name “STIG!” Barney
has read about people like Stig, they lived a long time ago and we used to call
them Cavemen. Cavemen got their food where they could find it and made what
they could of things they could find – they were resourceful. The only
help they ever got was from their tribe, who are like our friends and family.
The sad thing is Barney finds that Stig’s tribe is no longer there, he is alone
and maybe a little sad but hides his feelings by doing lots of grunts.
Don't worry it’s not a sad book because Barney and Stig have
great adventures together, They make a
home from old jam jars and sticks. They build statues. They get rid of some
awful bullies, who never dare be nasty to them again. They become the best of
friends.
Barney comes from a time like today and Stig from a long
long time ago. In no time they learn how to talk and how to share what they
know about the world to make things better in this special time they have
together.
It’s a great adventure and I’d love to tell you the end. I
can’t because that’s what they call spoilers, its spoils all the fun of
the reading adventure.
Andy Hill, age 7 million and 3 days.
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