Stone Underpants: The first hilarious adventure with Pod and his Stone Age friends and inventions.
REVIEWS:
When you first pick this children’s book up you know it’s going to be a funny adventure. I definitely wasn’t wrong as my daughters giggled all the way through while Pod tried out some very interesting underpants. Children just find anything about bottoms and pants funny, and it’s a sure fire way to get them hooked on a story from the very beginning. (ZENA)
When you live in the Stone Age, it can get very cold… so cold, in fact, that you might need a good bottom warmer! Never one to sit around feeling the chill, young Pod decides to find himself some cosy underpants but where do you find them when everyone’s stony broke for warm materials? Young fiction writer Rebecca Lisle makes a triumph of going ‘bottom up’ in her first picture book which explores – in the most delightful way – the freezing but funny side of the Stone Age. Pod doesn’t like having a cold bottom so his dad very helpfully suggests he makes some. And Pod works really hard to solve the problem… but stone ones are too heavy, wooden ones are too splintery, shells too clattery and feathers too ticklish. It’s only when he sees the woolly mammoth’s warm coat that his ideas start to knit together something truly toasty warm… Richard Watson provides the wonderfully colourful and characterful illustrations for a charming picture book brimming with invention, imagination and Stone Age innovation!
Rebecca Lisle has written some fantastic books for young and older readers but this is her first picture book, and it’s a gem. The story is very simple. We’re in the stone age. Pod wants to go out and play with his mates but it’s too cold to venture out in his birthday suit. His parents suggest he could make himself a pair of undies. He tries various materials, including leaves, feathers and wood but nothing works until he has a brainwave: stone underpants. Rebecca tells her story in a funny, direct style that compliments Richard’s bright, cartoony style. This is a great, endearing little book that will have children in giggles, and would also work well in a classroom when doing the ‘stone age’ as a topic. Reviewed by Saviour Pirotta.
Review from The Bookbag:
“Poor Pod has a chilly bottom! His leafy clothing is just not cutting it, and he needs to find an alternative. But what can he use to make himself some pants?”
“Very silly, good for boys and girls, your toddlers will love it!”
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