Inch and Grub: A Story About Cavemen

Description

Two cavemen invent EVERYTHING! But will they be happy? Inch and Grub are cavemen. Grub's cave is bigger, and he says that makes him the best. So Inch adds a water feature to his cave. But Grub has made fire! So Inch makes a chair. And a house. And a CAR. Grub, meanwhile, has made a castle and a train and a radio! And so the contest spirals and spirals ... until they each have a HUGE wobbling pile of STUFF. But what happens when the piles collapse? A funny story about being competitive and how STUFF is not what matters in life.

Alastair Chisholm began his career as a software developer in Edinburgh. His interest in devising and tackling logical problems led him to create the hugely successful Kids Book of Sudoku and Kids Book of Karuko puzzle book series. The Prince and the Witch and the Thief and the Bears, illustrated by Jez Tuya, was his first picture book. David Roberts is the author-illustrator of the Dirty Bertie books and the illustrator of many books for children, including the bestselling Rosie Revere, Engineer and Ada Twist, Scientist, written by Andrea Beaty, several titles by Julia Donaldson, the Kate Greenaway-shortlisted The Dunderheads, written by Paul Fleischman, and the picture books The Dumpster Diver, written by Janet S. Wong, and His Royal Tinyness, written by Sally Lloyd-Jones. Find him online at davidrobertsillustration.com.

In picture books, Alastair Chisholm and David Roberts collaborate on Inch and Grub, a consumerist caveman caper that sees the titular Stone Agers competing to acquire possessions, from fire and chairs to phones and computers, until disaster strikes. The blissful wit of Roberts's illustrations combines to strong effect with Chisholm's restrained text. * The Guardian * [...] a witty, resonant look at the value of simple things. * The Bookseller *