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Lucy & Andy Neanderthal (Lucy and Andy Neanderthal Book 1) by [Jeffrey Brown]

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From the author of the New York Times bestselling Jedi Academy books comes a hilarious graphic novel series about two young cave kids living 40,000 years ago.

“Lucy & Andy are Stone Age rock stars! I loved this book!” —Lincoln Peirce, author of the Big Nate series

Lucy and Andy are a sister and brother who get into trouble much like any sister and brother. Only difference? Lucy and Andy live in the Stone Age! Discover their laugh-out-loud adventures as the Paleo pair take on a wandering baby sibling, bossy teens, cave paintings, and a mammoth hunt. But what will happen when they encounter a group of humans?

Includes extra information about Neanderthal life that's sure to appeal to future paleontologists and science phobes alike! And don't miss Lucy and Andy's next outing, Lucy & Andy Neanderthal: The Stone Cold Age -- coming soon!

A New York City Public Library Best 50 Books for Kids 2016!
A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best 2016!

"Jeffrey Brown returns from a galaxy far, far away to bring us a whole new slew of kid-friendly characters! Just beware of mammoth dung!"
—Keith Knight, author of Jake the Fake and The Knight Life

Every kid will love to go back in time with LUCY & ANDY!"
—Judd Winick, author of Hilo: The Boy Who Saved the World

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Lucy and Andy Neanderthal
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240 pages
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3 - 7
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Crown Books for Young Readers
Publication date

August 30, 2016
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Gr 2–5—Popular author Brown brings his fun cartoon style, often seen in his "Star Wars" adventures, to this prehistoric tale. Lucy and Andy are two Neanderthal siblings who take us through a fairly normal week (mammoth hunting, crafting tools, making clothes). At the end of each chapter, modern scientists on an archaeological dig at their cave provide factual commentary. The last chapter and author's note include a time line and more information about the world of the Neanderthals. With his extensive research and these notes, Brown has created a graphic novel that is as much nonfiction as fiction, containing historical context and a lovely fictional story with siblings, crushes, and other adventures. The resulting blend is sure to draw reluctant readers and send some students scurrying for more in-depth material. Kids will learn a great deal about the Neanderthals while laughing their way through the story. Brown demonstrates a depth of knowledge of the subject, with a few winking anachronisms. VERDICT An amusing and enjoyable graphic novel that teaches about daily Neanderthal life, this title will be right at home in most elementary school and public library collections.—Elizabeth Nicolai, Anchorage Public Library, AK --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

About the Author

Jeffrey Brown is the author/illustrator of the bestselling Jedi Academy series and Chronicle’s Darth Vader series. He resides in Chicago with his wife and two sons. You can visit him at jeffreybrowncomics.com. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0190HKXZK
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Crown Books for Young Readers (August 30, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 30, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 240 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #154,237 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #4 in Children's Prehistoric Books (Kindle Store)
- #20 in Children's Prehistory Fiction
- #584 in Children's Comics & Graphic Novels (Kindle Store)

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Jeffrey Brown is the best selling author and illustrator of the middle grade Jedi Academy series as well as the Darth Vader and Son series. When he was a kid, Jeffrey always dreamed of growing up to draw comics and make books for a living - and now he’s living that dream! Jeffrey has written a number of autobiographical books for adults, humorous graphic novels about cats, and parodies like Incredible Change-Bots. His middle grade series Lucy & Andy Neanderthal was 40,000 years in the making, telling the story of a kid sister and brother living in the Stone Age, along with real research into life in prehistoric times. He also paid tribute to all the great teachers he's had with the picture book My Teacher Is A Robot.

Currently, Jeffrey is blasting off into space with his new middle grade series, Space-Time! The first book, Once Upon A Space-Time!, follows Petra and Jide, two human kids who get to take a trip to Mars, where they meet aliens and robots - and get ready for a galactic adventure with minimal adult supervision!

Each volume of Space-Time! will also include an all new Lucy & Andy Neanderthal short story!

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Cris D

Lucy & Andy Neanderthal

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 20, 2022

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This is the first book in a fun educational series. The author has made it in comic book format. You will see how Neanderthal’s lived day to day. Then the author brings in two specialists to explain everything to us.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 9, 2022

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My son takes these books everywhere he loves this series.

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Jamey Weare

My 7 y/o Loved This book So Much

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 7, 2022

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His descriptions of books when we ask what happened is often very limited. This book he just kept telling us about the characters and the polt. It was fun.

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Lee Raspet

An interesting read on the prehistoric.....

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 21, 2016

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This is a great book. We bought this book for our little cousin who really is picky about what he reads. We were not sure if he would read it or not; the one positive was the prehistoric subject matter, which my cousin loves. We are glad we took the chance. When our little cousin opened the book, he started reading the first couple pages and started laughing. He said this was definitely a book he was looking forward to reading. This book is setup like author's previous books(star wars Jedi school) comic bookish similar to Captain Underpants(from what we've seen). It has some kid humor in it....brother picking on brother....brother picking on sister....etc... Overall flipping through the book, it seems cute and interesting at the same time.

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Peter Y Ban

Wow! Very nice!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 17, 2020

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Jeffrey Brown is one of my favorite books! I want to read more books that we wrote for kids and adults! I really wish he can make a NEW Jedi Academy Book. But I think this one is very funny also!

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Ken

Jeffrey Brown is simply awesome

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 21, 2018

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What a wonderful book for my 8 year old. He loved Jedi Academy, so we thought we'd give this one a try. We weren't disappointed. A little bit of history, science, humor, and a lot of fun. My son wrote to Jeffrey Brown and he was kind enough to write him back! Talk about a shocker. He was the envy of the other third graders in his class.

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Leya

Jeffrey Brown does it again!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 27, 2017

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My 8 year old is a huge fan of the Jedi Academy books by Jeffrey Brown. I ordered this after the fourth Jedi book, written by another author, missed the mark. Lucy and Andy are a hit and have been read and reread countless times. The only downside is the second installment won't be released until August and according to an 8 year old "that's like TWO YEARS!"

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Velika

Fun AND Informative

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 21, 2019

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Our daughter has been reading this series for a while (age 8 and 9). The book is wonderful - fun AND informative!
She can't put them down!
Wonderful series!

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jannette gould

Confusing

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 16, 2019

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Thought This format would appeal to granddaughter having reading problems but it was confusing having modern people appearing to explain thing s without warning. Poor quality paper .

KLW

A very readable and enjoyable story based on (speculated) stone-age life

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 19, 2016

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This is quite an unusual tale of brother and sister, Lucy and Andy, and their stone-age family living in a cage amongst a small pre-historic group hunting woolly mammoths.

Via the use of cartoon-style sketches, the family are shown going about their routine daily activities from the more mundane, ie collecting stones from which to make tools to foraging for berries and, after hunting a mammoth for food, are using its skins to make clothing, always ensuring nothing goes to waste.

Their adventures are interspersed with some observations such as how tools were made, along with speculation based on findings re how cave accommodation was possibly arranged with cooking and tool-making areas, early cave drawings and the materials used and other aspects of stone age life. It doesn't proclaim to be wholly historically accurate as demonstrated by the inclusion of the family's pet (prehistoric) cat but where it clearly deviates from being accurate, a humorous note is made about this to ensure readers accept it as part of the story.

It's a story combining fiction in an easy-read with prehistorical archaeological findings and assumptions giving the story an educational element which extends towards the end to a comparison of neanderthals with human beings.

It's an easy read, very well presented and the historical elements are easily remembered thanks to the relaxed and enjoyable presentation and occasional humorous touches. An enjoyable read with the promise of a continuation of the story in a follow-up book.

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A. I. McCulloch

Entertaining, accessible presentation of Neanderthal life in comic book format. Gives accurate facts in a fun, readable way.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 1, 2017

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A very clever presentation, which blends accurate, up to date paleontological findings on Neanderthals and early humans with an easy accessible comic-book style that should engage even very reluctant readers.

Although the author is American there is a very limited use of American English, and I could find no phrases that would have confused UK/Irish based readers. The story follows the daily lives of two children, Lucy and Andy, and their Neanderthal extended family group.
Lucy is the bossy, clever older sister, Andy the younger brother, anxious to join his father and the men of the group in their hunting expeditions, but he is too young.

The relationships will be very familiar to today's children. There is a still in nappies toddler brother, Danny, a slightly bullying older boy, Phil, and Margaret, an older girl that Andy has a crush on.

Where there are anachronisms they are pointed out. Andy has a sabre toothed cat-like 'pet', Tiny, but a cat-like creature of the same size as Tiny is not known to have existed in areas where Neanderthals lived.
There are also some very amusing running jokes. Bright Lucy has a lot of suggestions for improving Neanderthal daily life - the invention of flat plates for eating their roasted acorns, for example. (Acorns are not poisonous if roasted). The Neanderthals also meet a group of humans. It's not totally clear how humans and Neanderthals interacted, and the story leaves possibilities equally open.

At the end of the book there are some informative and entertaining additional pages. The known facts on Neanderthals are explored by two cartoon paleontologists along with a fact vs fiction section. Author Jeffrey Brown explains how he wrote the book and kept it as up to date with known facts as possible. There is a history of cartoon, book and movie cavemen (from Alley Oop to The Croods) and finally there are some taster pages for a sequel, featuring Lucy and Andy in winter.
Entertaining and educational.

S Bruce

This is how to mix educational with fun

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 24, 2016

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This is a really engaging and innovative way to bring to life some of what we (think we) know about neanderthal life. Rather than forming a substantial over-arching story, it’s a series of little episodes introducing animals, food stuffs, hunting practices and so on. All the characters talk in English with plenty of modern colloquialisms (“it’s starting to freak me out” etc.) and obviously it’s not pretending to be historically accurate in any representation, but nevertheless a child- and a grown-up- will come away from this book with a richer and hopefully not too inaccurate picture of what we think happened back then.

Some people might seen comic strip education as ‘dumbing down’ but if it’s more evocative and relatable than some dry text, if kids can imagine themselves in Lucy’s or Andy’s shoes (well they didn’t wear shoes but you know what I mean) then it’s actually very effective. Our daughter came away from it with a lot of good questions and wanting to know more, which is definitely a good thing. She’s just a touch below the recommended age for the book and some of the harsher realities of hunting and killing were just a touch uncomfortable for her, but 8 to 11 year-olds won’t have a problem with it.

There are even little nods for the grown-ups as well, like the “that’s not a knife, this is a knife” quote from Crocodile Dundee, little tongue-in-cheek extras for the grown-ups to spot.

The paper used in the print is unusually coarse and feels a bit more like newspaper stock but that doesn’t detract from the quality and it should still be a durable book that will last for a few siblings at least!

I’m frankly not interested in Jeffrey Brown’s series of Star Wars-related books, but if there are any more “edutainment” (I don’t like that word but it’s applicable) books looking at history or other school subjects in the same really engaging and fun way, then I’ll definitely be checking those out with my kids.

P M Buchan

Brilliant - 100% recommended - Just buy it!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 5, 2017

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When I read Lucy and Andy Neanderthal with my 8-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter we all absolutely loved it. I would 100% recommend this to families with children of any ages.

Watching Jeffrey Brown's growth creatively from his early diary/relationship comics, to acclaim in the comic world (reflected in his becoming less likeable and humble in the diary comics about his life!), before moving on to the Jedi Academy series of children's books, which my son also loves, has been fascinating. I'm happy to see him moving into this more sustainable stage of his career, where he can use his imagination to create successful series for children, rather than relying on diary comics or popular licences.

Lucy and Andy Neanderthal reads as a series of vignettes about family life 40,000 years ago. Jeffrey Brown does a brilliant job of making stone-age life relatable and drawing parallels to modern families, but then also frames these short comic strips with a device where two scientists address the reader and talk about what was and wasn't accurate in the stories. The first big strip deals with the children learning to make tools like spear-heads and daggers, then ends with the scientists explaining how they date stone-age finds and how they've recreated the making methods used by neanderthals to better understand the process. It's an excellent concept that helps children to enjoy the story, encourages further learning and helps to put the fiction and non-fiction elements into context.

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