Author | Margaret A. McIntyre |
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Language | English |
Series | editions list |
Genre | Juvenile novel |
Publisher | George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. (UK)[1] D. Appleton and Company (US)[1] |
Publication date | 1907 |
Publication place | United States |
The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone is a classic heavily illustrated educational children's novel aimed at a juvenile audience published in 1907 by author Margaret A. McIntyre and illustrated by Irma Deremeaux[2] which is currently available in digital formats from multiple sources. By 2007, the work had entered the public domain and several reprint publishers on three continents[3] have brought out new editions varying considerably in quality and workmanship, including at least one with the many original line drawings (Etchings) reproduced throughout (See list below) in a high quality hardcover edition.
The story line focuses on two young brothers and their family group while attempting to educate the young reader in a picture of what life was likely like for Cavemen. In the earliest part of the narrative, the author introduces the idea of domestication of animals, because a tethered kid (goat offspring) had become gentled and docile—so much so they put their toddler sister on its back for a ride. Moving forward, the novel describes all the major milestones featured during the stone age such as the discovery of fire, the creation of weapons, hunting/ foraging for food, cooking that food, as well as how and why man learnt how to swim.
CHAPTER | Chapter Titles |
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I. | Strongarm's Family |
II. | The Needle, the Club, and the Bow |
III. | The Taming of the Dog |
IV. | How Strongarm Hunted a Bear and a Lion |
V. | The Old Ax Maker Visits His Daughter |
VI. | The Coming of Fire |
VII. | The Cave Tiger |
VIII. | The Making of Stone Weapons |
IX. | At the Gravel Pit |
X. | A Summer Camp |
XI. | Thorn Meets the Children of the Shell Mounds |
XII. | At the Home of the Shell Mound People |
XIII. | Thorn Learns to Swim |
XIV. | The Feast of Mammoth's Meat |
PART II (non-fiction) | Educational materials organized for teachers giving a variety of archaeological and geographical information as was accepted in 1907. |
XV. | The Red Men of Our Own Country in the Stone Age |
XVI. | How Stone Weapons of the Cave Men Were First Found |
XVII. | How the Earth Looked When the Shell Men and the Cave Men Lived |
XVIIII. | How Early Men Believed That All Things That Move Are Alive |
XIX. | The People of Our Time Who Were Most Like the Cave Men |
SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS |
As is characteristic of many quality works by the publishers of the first US and UK editions, the work is heavily illustrated with engravings, some of which are illustrated below.