Your Mother Was a Neanderthal

by Jon Scieszka

Book Overview

Everyone s favorite time-travelers are changing their styles The Time Warp Trio series now features a brand-new, eye-catching design, sure to appeal to longtime fans, and those new to Jon Scieszka s... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670844810
• ISBN13: 9780670844814
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 7 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 4

Customer Reviews

Time Traveling

Time Traveling By Zachary Your Mother Was A Neanderthal is about three boys named Fred,Sam,and Joe who go to the past and see LIVE NEANDERTHALS!!! When they are there,they go through a lot of adventures such as teaching the Neanderthals to read and write.They got to the past by a book called The Book that Joe's uncle gave to Joe for his birthday. Hope is found in this book because they hoped they would get back to the future because they were in the past. A message in the story is never get ahead of your self.I agree with this because sometimes when I write stories,I put important things in front of other important things.Another is never give up.I agree with this because I never give up when hard things happen. If I could trade places with a character in the story it would be Sam because I could recreate modern civilization in the Stone Age. I think Sam represents intelligence because he can make clothes using leaves and vines.I think Joe represents magic because he knows a lot of magic tricks. My point of view about the characters is I think Joe,Fred,and Sam are good characters. Before I read Your Mother Was A Neanderthal I thought that you should give up if things were way to hard but after I read this book I changed my schema,now I think you should never give up. I recommend this book to boys and girls because both might like the setting.Also recommend this book to kids in reading level 2 through reading level 4.I gave my book a 5 star rating.

My Review of Your Mother was a Neanderthal

I think this book should be rated 5 stars because it's really funny and has a lot of smart remarks. In the story Sam Joe and Fred, in other words the time warp trio travel to the time 40,000 BC. There they meet cavemen and cave women. The problem is that they have to find the magic book to get back to their own time. There they met three cavegirls who took them up to meet their leader Ma. Then Ma locked them up a cave and that's when thier problems started. But they finally escaped by running away when Ma opened the gate. After awhile they met cavemen and their leader Ug. Then Ug showed them maggot infested meat. When Sam Joe and Fred tried to get out of the smelly hole in the ground Ug pulled them down and said no caw. That's when they saw a sabre tooth tiger and they came up with an idea. They dressed like a really ugly monster and scared the tiger off. Then they went back to the cave and found the book. They used the book to go back home. By Kayla Overman

Read it and laugh!

as I couldn't stop doing at the typically boyish descriptions of the misadventures of the Time Warp Trio in this little volume. The jokes may be juvenile, but they're not too juvenile for middle-aged me, and I was perfectly willing to read the whole book to my children for the sake of their (completely satisfactory) reaction to a joke about cooked meat.

THE MAX!

Are teacher in foruth grade read it to us and we thought it was the max!

Fantastic! You'll never put it down.

What do you think would happen if you traveled back to the time of cave men and women? The time warp trio found that out. In the stone age, they met Ma, the leader of a group of cave women,(who were very civilized for their time)and her children, Nat-Li, Lind-say, and Jos-Feen. They also met Duh, the leader of a group of cave men,(who were not 1/2 as civilized as the women). Find out what happens to the Time Warp Trio in this awsome book.