Don’t worry about that, he’s just saying pleased to meet you. These early Britons were hunter-gatherers. They used flint tools to hunt animals, like deer and mammoths. Stories and Poems Popular Stories and Authors Stone Age Boy - Satoshi Kitamura Stone Age Boy - Satoshi Kitamura Satoshi Kitamura was born in 1956. After dropping out of school to pursue art, Kitamura decided not to attempt a 10-year apprenticeship as a potter and instead worked as a graphic artist. He was not trained as an artist, but at the age of 19 began to do commercial work as an illustrator for adverts and magazines. He moved from Tokyo to London in 1979 where he worked mainly at designing greeting cards.

I love how the main character was influenced by his Stone Age friend into becoming an archaeologist as an adult! He learned along with the reader which made the story feel like a much more personal and relatable experience. Look at the illustrations of the boy and girl trying to communicate. Can you imagine some speech / thought bubbles (or captions) for the pictures. The last Ice Age ended around 15,000 years ago and the British climate became very similar to how it is today. The forests were full of foxes and red squirrels . Wolves and bears lived in the hills. Create some puppets of modern and stone age people. Can you use these to perform a play in which the characters explain and compare what their lives are like?

Reading Skills - Stone Age Boy

Save 20% on these complete units of work for teaching the Stone Age in KS2! This bundle currently comprises of: The cyclical nature of the book is also really lovely, with the same picture repeated twice to symbolise the time travel.

An introduction to life in Neolithic Britain through the eyes of a typical family as they attempt to hunt and farm enough food to live on.The Stone Age is split into three parts; Palaeolithic (old Stone Age), Mesolithic (middle Stone Age) and the Neolithic (new Stone Age).

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