A Puffin Book
- stories that last a lifetime 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 & fun-filled endnotes Clive King's Stig of the Dump is a much-loved modern classic It is the story of Barney & his best friend cave-man Stig 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 & he lands in a sort of cave Here he meets 'somebody with a lot of shaggy hair & two bright black eyes' wearing a rabbit skin & speaking in grunts He names him Stig Of course nobody believes Barney when he tells his family all about Stig but for Barney cave-man Stig is totally real They become great friends learning each others ways & embarking on a series of unforgettable adventures Clive King was born in Richmond Surrey in 1924 When he was young his family moved to a village called Ash near Sevenoaks in Kent which is the setting for Stig of the Dump He went to Downing College Cambridge & the School of Oriental & African Studies in London He then served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve His service as a sailor & his work as a language teacher took him all over the world Clive King lives with his family in Norfolk & is a full-time writer Also available in A Puffin Book GOODNIGHT MISTER TOM & BACK HOME by Michelle Magorian CHARLOTTE'S WEB STUART LITTLE & THE TRUMPET OF THE SWAN by E B White THE BORROWERS by Mary Norton STIG OF THE DUMP by Clive King ROLL OF THUNDER HEAR MY CRY by Mildred D Taylor A DOG SO SMALL by Philippa Pearce GOBBOLINO by Ursula Moray Williams CARRIE'S WAR by Nina Bawden MRS FRISBY & THE RATS OF NIMH by Richard C O' Brien A WRINKLE IN TIME by Madeleine L' Engle THE CAY by Theodore Taylor TARKA THE OTTER by Henry Williamson WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams SMITH by Leon Garfield THE NEVERENDING STORY by Michael Ende ANNIE by Thomas Meehan THE FAMILY FROM ONE END STREET by Eve Garnett Other titles by Clive King Hamid of Aleppo; The Town that Went South; The 22 Letters; The Night the Water Came; Snakes & Snakes; Me & My Million; The Inner Ring series; The Devil's Cut; Ninny's Boat; The Sound of propellors; The Seashore People; A Touch of Class