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Briggs, Raymond

Ug: Boy Genius of the Stone Age and His Search for Soft Trousers

32 pp. | Knopf | October, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-375-81611-9 $$15.95 | Library ISBN 0-375-91611-3 $$17.99
(2) 1-3 Marooned in a cartoon stone age of Briggs's own cunning invention, Ug imagines improvements to make life "nicer," but his ideas meet with mystification and scorn. In this wistful tale of the loneliness of innovative thinkers, Briggs takes all the sophomoric jokiness of the comic strip and transforms corn into gold. Briggs champions the tentative, sympathizes with the perplexed, and persuades us of the heroism of a failed vision.
Reviewer: Sarah Ellis | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2002

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