Ug: Boy Genius of the Stone Age and His Search for Soft Trousers
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By Raymond Briggs, and and, Raymond Briggs
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Ug and his parents are living in the Stone Age. And that means stone blankets, stone cold food, an even colder cave and, worst of all, hard stone trousers! Being an inquisitive and intelligent child, Ug suggests a series of modifications to improve the quality of family life. His ideas about heating, cooking, boats, and balls that actually bounce are met with a hostile reaction by his parents who don’t know what he’s going on about. Even Ug himself is occasionally unsure of the purpose of his inventions – his round stone that rolls down the hill is great, but what is it actually for? With the help of his father, who is slowly coming round to his son’s way of thinking, Ug comes tantalisingly close to his ultimate garment goal, only to find that there are some obstacles even a boy genius can’t overcome.
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I like this book, Ug was really fun and it shows you how you should be curious about things and use your imagination.
I think the only problem is that the book has a lot of pages and words therefore it should not be a comic. My favourite character in the story was Ug because he wanted to invent lots of things like nice, soft trousers, warm duvet covers. I would recommend this book to my friends and family
UG was a clever boy (for the stone age). He tried to invent soft, warm trousers, but never succeeded. Instead, he had to wear stone pants. Also, his blanket was just a big rock. It was a bit funny.
Like the illustrations and found the story funny.
I like this book because Ug's mum gets out of bed naked because she is so angry with Ug and his dad for being silly, but they are actually being very clever and inventing new trousers.
It was good. His mum was mean though.
Used this for my Year 2 class. They love the book. Ug's mom is the favourite character among my students. I have to say that I love his mom too.
This was a hard book to read on my own because it is so long and I’m not sure which squares to read next.
I loved the book it's so funny and I love how all ug wants is soft trousers. The way they wrote it was good and I liked the comic style.
The book was ok. I liked that it was a comic style. I would recommend this book to people who like silly books.
I liked it because i really like the stone age and that's what i am learning about at school.
This is a fiction book but has lots of interesting facts about the stone age. It is quite a short book. It is about a boy who searches for comfy trousers but he never finds them.
It was a good read. It was funny and had lots of nice pictures and funny jokes!
This book teaches you what happened in the stone age.I think it sends you a message to listen to people.
