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    Stone Age Tales: The Great Flood
    Stone Age Tales: The Great Flood
    Stone Age Tales: The Great Flood
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    Stone Age Tales: The Great Flood

    By Terry Deary

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    From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories, named 'the outstanding children's non-fiction author of the 20th century' by Books For Keeps
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    Ideal for readers aged 7+

    9500 years ago, as the Ice Age is ending...

    Jay's grandfather is old, maybe twice as many summers as he has fingers and toes, but he is wise too. Jay loves to sit in their house by the river and listen to his stories of the Great Spirit and the Earth Mother. But outside, danger is at their door; food is getting scarcer, tribes are at war, and all the time the river water is rising...

    A brand new and exciting tale, based on real historical and archaeological evidence, this story is full of Terry Deary's imaginative style and dry wit.

    Book band: Grey
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    'Bubbling with wit, language play and robust dialogue....just the right mix of ingredients to trigger young readers' interest in all things historical' - Books For Keeps
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateMar 8, 2018
    ISBN9781472950383
    Stone Age Tales: The Great Flood
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    Terry Deary

    Terry Deary is the author of over 200 fiction and non-fiction books, which have been published in 32 languages. His historical fiction for older children Tudor Terror has been praised as "a marvellous blend of fact and fiction" (School Librarian). His non-fiction has been consistently in the best-seller lists since 1994. His Horrible Histories celebrated their 15th anniversary in 2008, having sold over 10 million copies worldwide and been adapted as television series, theatre tours and museum exhibitions. Terry Deary was voted "Outstanding children's non-fiction author of the 20th Century" by Books for Keeps magazine.

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      Stone Age Tales - Terry Deary

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      The Flash of a Firefly

      9,500 years ago, as the Ice Age is ending

      Jay loved to hear the stories her grandfather told. When darkness fell they sat around the fire and watched the golden flames glow bright. Jay’s father, Mor, chipped away at a flint and turned dull stones into bright, sharp blades. Her mother, Sorrel, sat and used a bone needle to sew skins into shoes and clothes.

      ‘Tell me a story, Grandfather,’ Jay begged. ‘Tell me about the days of old.’

      The old man’s eyes shone in the fire-glow. He didn’t move much these days. He had fallen and broken a leg. It hadn’t healed well. His son, Mor, said the family would look after him. They would hunt and gather food. Now that Jay was old enough she could help.

      ‘He won’t be with us long,’ Mor had muttered to Jay early that day while they were out hunting for deer in the woods to the north.

      Grandfather had always been there. Jay thought he would be there for ever more. Her father didn’t talk much. But that day he had told his daughter the secrets of life as his own grandfather had told him. He shook his head. ‘Life is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a stag in the winter. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and vanishes in the sunset. The Great Spirit, the Earth Mother, puts us here for a little while then takes us back again.’

      The hunting that day had been long and hard. On the morning’s journey they came to the stream that they used to walk across with ease. Each time they came back it seemed wider and deeper. Now it was a river, up to Jay’s waist.

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