# Help me ID a juvenile book about a caveman?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-a-juvenile-book-about-a-caveman/160695>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 12, 2003, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-a-juvenile-book-about-a-caveman/160695 "2003-03-12T00:22:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-a-juvenile-book-about-a-caveman/160695/21 "2003-03-13T18:35:40Z")

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Can do **Kallessa**.

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**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-a-juvenile-book-about-a-caveman/160695/22 "2003-03-13T19:38:12Z")

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Argh! I have come too late! I ID’d the book based on the _title_ of the thread. I was a huge Kjelgaard fanatic when I was in the fourth grade.

His Irish Setter books are _Big Red_, _Irish Red_, and _Outlaw Red_.

Other awseome doggy-outdoorsy books are _Snow Dog_ and _Wild Trek_.

Never read the Aborigine one, though.

And sorry, **Baker,** the second book isn’t ringing any bells.

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**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-a-juvenile-book-about-a-caveman/160695/23 "2003-03-13T21:00:04Z")

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I had a look - the one about the aborigine was Boomerang Hunter.[There are several websites.](http://home.sprintmail.com/~charterbus/kjelgaard.html)

I still have my copy of Forest Patrol, and I reread it last night. Still holds up.

Regards,  
Shodan

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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-id-a-juvenile-book-about-a-caveman/160695/24 "2003-04-10T03:14:34Z")

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Update:

In my post of 3-12-03 I asked about another book in which a lost world of cave dwellers and dinosaurs is discovered.

I’ve finally found the answer. I posted to a bookstore website that has a “Bookstumper” feature and just today someone listed a “Bibliography of Prehistoric Fiction” So I started to slog through the 1023 entries, and, in the F’s(authors) found it.

The book is Adventure in Forgotten Valley, by Glyn Frewer. My thanks to all who viewed this thread when first posted and tried to help. God, I love the Internet. I’d never have found the book without it.

BTW, **Kallessa** , the firemen at the station on Oakley here in Topeka thank you for the cookies!

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