Brown, Jeffrey Lucy and Andy Neanderthal: The Stone Cold Age
(Lucy and Andy Neanderthal, #2), 224 pages. GRAPHIC NOVEL Crown Books (Random),
2017. $13 Content: G.
Lucy and Andy have to share their family’s cave with a
human family who is looking for shelter.
Andy is upset with how many people are crowding into his space, but Lucy
enjoys having new friends. The kids play
together while the parents try to find another cave for the human family. Andy always feels like he is getting left out
and wants to help the men. One day he
ends up protecting his friends from a cave bear and his parents and friends
acknowledge that he is brave.
This
graphic novel is the second in the series and I’m not sure if reading the first
book is necessary to understanding this book.
The characters aren’t very endearing, the pictures are in black and
white making them bland and uninteresting and the story line is slow. The best part of this book is the interesting
facts about Neanderthals and the Ice Age that the author disperses throughout
the book as well as at the end. When I
handed this to my third grader he opened it up, looked at the pictures for
thirty seconds and determined that it wasn’t worth reading, so I’m not sure it
holds a lot of cover appeal. There are
also a large amount of characters that aren’t overly distinguishable and hard
to keep track of.
EL (K-3), EL – OPTIONAL. Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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