Tuppence Middleton chooses Stig of the Dump by Clive King published by Puffin Books 1963

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Stig Of The Dump was rejected by a great many publishers until it was picked up by the legendary children's editor Kay Webb, of Puffin Books who said it was one of the books she was proudest of publishing. Since 1963 it has sold millions of copies. And it's the one that's probably closest to it’s author Clive King (1924 – 2018) himself; long before recycling was fashionable he loved to pick up bits and pieces that other people had discarded and turn them into something else. As a child of the 1930s he would roam around the North Kent countryside playing, yes, in a chalk pit. Years later his own children did the same and there it was, the inspiration for the story of Barney and his friend Stig.  Never out of print, for generations of children the magical chalk pit lives on in their imagination – in real life, it is now covered by a golf course. 

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