I have decided to do a set of posts on historical fiction. As I find more books I will add them to the list so please feel free to comment with any you remember. I read lots of historical fiction as a child and so I am starting off with the authors I remember and the recommendations in the back of old puffin novels.
Stone Age
11,000 years lost by Peni R. Griffin, 2005. Esther travels back in time to the Pleistocene.
Boy with the bronze axe by Katheleen Fidler Set in Orkney at Skara Brae. A boy is washed ashore with a bronze axe which the islanders have never seen before.
Stig of the Dump by Clive King Barney finds a stone age boy living in the local dump. Although it written and set in the 1950s the depiction of a stone age boy/ man is very plausible.
Stone Age Boy by Satoshi Kitamura Picture book where a present day fboy alls back in time. Wonderful illustrations
Ug by Raymond Briggs Rather surreal story of Ug an inventor.
Warrior Scarlet by Rosemary Sutcliff Set in the Bronze age, a dsabled boy has to prove himself to the tribe.
Few more discovered since this post and Katherine's response
Attar of the ice valley by Leonard Wibberley, 1972. A neanderthal's tale.
Mik's Mammoth by Roy Gerrard, 1992
One small blue bead by Byrd Baylor, 1992
Tanka the cave boy by Ross Hutchins, 1973
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Hi Jane - I've put my stone age list together. http://www.katherine.teknohippy.net/childrens-historical-fiction-stone-age/
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness and Stone Age Boy is one of my favourite picture books ever.
The First Dog (Reading Rainbow)by Jan Brett looks beautiful.
Adventures in the Ice Age (Good Times Travel Agency) by Linda Bailey is very popular with my eight year old.
Others I've found but we haven't read:
A Bone from a Dry Sea by Peter Dickinson
(Parallel stories of the daughter of a paleontologist and a prehistoric girl - explores the aquatic ape theory)
Malu's Wolf (Flyways) by Ruth Craig
The Kin: Suth's Story Bk.1 by Peter Dickinson
(Book 1 of The Kin Series)
Dar and the Spear Thrower by Marjorie Cowley
The Boy of the Painted Cave by Justin Denzel
Maroo of the Winter Caves by Ann Turnbull
Wolf-Woman (Laurel-Leaf Books) by Sherryl Jordan
(Young adult fiction)