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Horrible Histories: Savage Stone Age

By: Terry Deary, Martin Brown
Narrated by: Terry Deary
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Learn all about the Savage Stone Age, with all the nasty bits left in. You probably thought that Stone Age people spent all their time standing stones up on one end and rubbing sticks together to make fires.

©1999 Terry Deary & Martin Brown (P)2013 Scholastic UK
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Love horrible histories so much cracked up so many times in this book, and is a great listen for all ages highly recommend.

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Horrible Histories was one of my earliest obsessions as a child and I’ve been enjoying the nostalgia in revisiting these old audiobooks. There’s really no other series like them. They mix a childlike love for mischief with genuinely unsettling and gory facts about history that many adults would also find fascinating. I think there’s a strange attraction to fear that we’re all born with. We can never keep our eyes away from a train wreck. It’s simply too engaging. These stories get to the core of that in children and manage to explain complex conflicts to them in a way they can understand. I really admire Deary’s anti-authority worldview and encouragement to kids to be open minded. History can be different for different people. There is no one narrative. These are important lessons which he boils down to very simple, coherent concepts.

Unfortunately, I must admit that Savage Stone Age has always been my least favourite. Even as a kid, the humour seemed out of control. While the audiobooks were always silly, they remained gory history lessons at their core. However, the framework in this case is a fictional visit to Stonehenge where Deary talks to the tourists about history. I know it’s a children’s series but this book has significantly less edge than many in the series and I think that’s a shame.

Adults won’t get as much out of the series as kids, especially in this format (the books are perhaps somewhat more palatable) - but the history itself is still engaging with enough gory details to justify the weak framework. The performances are fittingly lively and energetic. The corny humour surprisingly hits the occasional zinger. It’s charmingly innocent while being dark and nihilistic. It’s totally unique to its series and for that reason I think it’s still kind of fascinating. Not to mention that with anything from this series, it comes with remarkable strength

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Thought the sample was ok, not fabulous but had the possibility of a laugh or two, so I bought this for my 9 year old who loves the Horrible Histories TV show. Neither of us enjoyed it. His comment at the end was ‘the voices were just silly and it didn’t make me laugh much, I didn’t learn anything new either’. I wonder if it is a bit dated? It has that old radio play feel to it.

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