A review by ianbanks
The Time-travelling Caveman by Terry Pratchett

4.0

Some of these stories end rather suddenly - as was the style for kiddilit back in the day - but a couple of them did feel as though there was a word limit approaching rather than the incident being retold was reaching its conclusion. As stories, though, they are great fun. There are more than a few traces of the wit and erudition that the later writer was famous for and there are a few stories that could be accused of having literary aspirations. Something I didn’t enjoy was the editorial intrusions that “updated” the stories to the present day. They jarred this reader because I knew that the tales herein were all written I. The 60s and 70s. I’m not sure why they were updated at all, to be honest, because they feel a little shoehorned in, and in one story - the titular Caveman adventure - they create an anachronism that takes you out of the yarn for a moment. Other than that, though, this is a really fun collection.