Inch and Grub: A Story About Cavemen

Winner of the Queen's Knickers Award and the Scottish Book Trust Picture Book Prize, this hilarious picture book about cavemen celebrates the value of the simpler things in life.

“A caveman caper that sees the titular Stone Agers competing to acquire possessions … until disaster strikes. The blissful wit of Roberts’s illustrations combines to strong effect with Chisholm’s restrained text.” Guardian

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?

Winner of Queen's Knickers Award 2022 (UK) Winner of Bookbug Picture Book Prize 2021 (UK)

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

Alastair Chisholm is the author of Adam-2, winner of the Blackwell's Children’s Book of the Year; Orion Lost, shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book of the Year; I Am Wolf; I Am Raven; and the fantasy chapter book series, Dragon Storm. His picture books include Inch and Grub illustrated by David Roberts, which won the Queen Knickers Award and Scottish Book Trust’s Bookbug PIcture Book Prize, as well as The Prince and the Witch and the Thief and the Bears, and its companion titles The Tale of the Valiant Ninja Frog and Space Pirate Bears, all illustrated by Jez Tuya. Alastair lives in Edinburgh with his family and Maudie the cat. Find him online at alastairc.com and on Instagram as @alastairchisholm.

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, non-fiction children's book Suffragette: The Battle for Equality, and the picture books The Dumpster Diver, written by Janet S. Wong, and His Royal Tinyness, written by Sally Lloyd-Jones. Born in Liverpool, he now lives in London. Find him online at davidrobertsillustration.com.

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