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Marshmallow reviews Lucy and Andy Neanderthal: Bad to the Bones by Jeffrey Brown

Marshmallow reviews Lucy & Andy Neanderthal: Bad to the Bones, the third book in the Lucy & Andy Neanderthal series of Jeffrey Brown.

Marshmallow has reviewed two books by Jeffrey Brown before: Lucy and Andy Neanderthal and Lucy and Andy Neanderthal: The Stone Cold Age. Today she writes about the third book in this series: Lucy and Andy Neanderthal: Bad to the Bones.

Marshmallow reviews Lucy and Andy Neanderthal: Bad to the Bones (the third book in the Lucy and Andy Neanderthal series) by Jeffrey Brown. — Marshmallow reviews *Lucy and Andy Neanderthal: Bad to the Bones* (the third book in the Lucy and Andy Neanderthal series) by Jeffrey Brown.

Marshmallow’s Quick Take: If you liked the previous books in the Lucy and Andy Neanderthal series, or more generally if you enjoy reading comic books, then this might be the book for you.

Marshmallow’s Summary (with spoilers): We meet Lucy and Andy Neanderthal in Lucy and Andy Neanderthal. They live in the Stone Age with their brother, Danny, their parents, Mr. Daryl, Phil, and Margaret. In the second book The Stone Cold Age, they meet a clan of humans, and they work with to them to find them a home, a cave.

In this third book, Lucy and her best friend Sasha, one of the humans, start the Super Adventure Explorers Discovery Club. The human children, together with Lucy and Andy, scout around the area and meet some other people. These other people are not very nice, especially when the Super Adventure Explorers Discovery Club discovers their plan to try and take over the cave that the humans live in. The Super Adventure Explorers Discovery Club immediately starts preparations to defend the cave from the newcomers.

Marshmallow is pointing the reader to the pages of Lucy and Andy Neanderthal: Bad to the Bones (the third book in the Lucy and Andy Neanderthal series) by Jeffrey Brown, where Andy burns things up in order to eradicate lice. — Marshmallow is pointing the reader to the pages of *Lucy and Andy Neanderthal: Bad to the Bones* (the third book in the Lucy and Andy Neanderthal series) by Jeffrey Brown, where Andy burns things up in order to eradicate lice.

Marshmallow’s Review: Lucy and Andy’s third book, Bad to the Bones, is a great read for all bunnies of all ages (Caramel really liked reading it too!). I really enjoyed this book because it was funny and the characters were familiar. It is probably a good idea to read the first two books (they are both very good books!), because the characters are very interesting, and knowing their characteristics in the previous books is helpful. But if you want to just read this one alone, then this is a fun read too.

The Club members set up multiple defenses and then they act like they just happened to be there, and the reader realizes that they are actually part of the defense. For example the newcomers try to steal some of their soup, but the Super Adventures Explorers Discovery Club make it to taste terrible.

Bad to the Bones has really funny drawings of really funny characters. My favorite characters are Andy or Lucy because they have a lot of faces that they can make and they are also some of the main characters. The author Jeffrey Brown does a very good job in making characters that readers will easily want to read about, and the drawing are really funny.

Just like the first two books in the series, this is a graphic novel that has a mix of facts about the lives of Neanderthals and a lot of other subjects. Two modern characters Pam and Eric show up here and there, at the end of most chapters, and tell us these facts. I definitely know a lot more about Neanderthals than I did before I began reading this series.

Marshmallow’s Rating: 95%.

Marshmallow rates Lucy and Andy Neanderthal: Bad to the Bones (the third book in the Lucy and Andy Neanderthal series) by Jeffrey Brown 95%. — Marshmallow rates *Lucy and Andy Neanderthal: Bad to the Bones* (the third book in the Lucy and Andy Neanderthal series) by Jeffrey Brown 95%.

Marshmallow reviews The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury by Bill Watterson

Marshmallow has been raiding the book bunnies home library because she is at home all day every day these days due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Today she reviews an old favorite of Sprinkles that she discovered recently among the grownup comic books: The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury by Bill Watterson.

Marshmallow’s Quick Take: If you like comic books, then this might be the book for you.

Marshmallow’s Summary (with spoilers): Calvin is a six-year-old child who has many adventures with his stuffed tiger Hobbes. Unfortunately, he does not enjoy school and he daydreams about how he is Spaceman Spiff who has been captured by evil aliens who represent his teacher, Mrs. Wormwood. He escapes from school and pretends that it is a matter of life and death. He likes playing these games and has all sorts of adventures.

In Calvin’s mind, Hobbes is alive and his best friend. They are inseparable and are together every moment that they can be.

He pretends that whenever he comes home, Hobbes jumps on him and attacks him. He pretends that he and Hobbes have all sorts of disagreements. He even fights his stuffed tiger. He and Hobbes make many gruesome snowmen when it snows. Some of them are being hung, and some are being buried alive.

Calvin is very entertaining, but he is also very rude and obnoxious. He is a very strange human child (bunnies are never this disagreeable). He is definitely not a good role model. He skips school and is unable to wash himself. He pretends that an evil alien is trying to force him to give it information.

Marshmallow is reading *The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury* by Bill Watterson.

Marshmallow’s Review: This is a very good book but it is also an older book, and its age shows a bit. It is a little inappropriate for younger children and I do not suggest reading it to a child younger than 9. He says some rude things that are not very nice to some groups of people. It is probably best for ages 9 and up.

Calvin and Hobbes is known as “the last great newspaper comic”, according to Wikipedia. Bill Watterson has created in Calvin a great character that has entertained readers for many years.

The comics are very interesting and thought provoking. When Calvin is asked by Hobbes if he has any New Year resolutions, his response is “No way! I’m already a great person!”

Calvin is also a very strange child. He has a vivid imagination that can be unsettling. He enjoys pretending that he is an all-powerful being that destroys worlds. He builds very complex cities. Then he destroys them. And his parents think that he is being very creative. When he listens to a song about Santa Claus that goes like “He sees you when you’re sleeping, He knows when you’re awake… He knows when you’ve bad or good, so be good for goodness sake!” Calvin stops listening and he says, “Santa Claus: kindly old elf, or CIA spook?” (You can see this comic from 1987 here.)

Marshmallow’s Rating: 90%.

Marshmallow rates The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury by Bill Watterson 90%. — Marshmallow rates *The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury* by Bill Watterson 90%.

Marshmallow reviews Lucy and Andy Neanderthal: Stone Cold Age by Jeffrey Brown

Marshmallow reviews the second book in Jeffrey Brown’s Lucy and Andy Neanderthal series: Lucy and Andy Neanderthal: Stone Cold Age.

Last week Marshmallow reviewed They Called Us Enemy, written by the Star Trek veteran George Takei together with Justin Eisinger and Steven Scott, and illustrated by Harmony Becker. Today she wanted to review a more light-hearted graphic novel and she chose the second book of Jeffrey Brown’s Lucy & Andy Neanderthal series: Lucy and Andy Neanderthal: Stone Cold Age. For her review of the first book, Lucy and Andy Neanderthal, see here. (Caramel reviewed a book by Jeffrey Brown too; you might enjoy his review of My Teacher is a Robot.)

Marshmallow reviews Lucy and Andy Neanderthal: Stone Cold Age by Jeffrey Brown. — Marshmallow reviews *Lucy and Andy Neanderthal: Stone Cold Age* by Jeffrey Brown.

Marshmallow’s Overview: If you like graphic novels and movies or books about the ice age, then this might be the book for you. You can enjoy it even if you have not read the first book (or my review of it).

Marshmallow’s Summary: Lucy and Andy Neanderthal are living in the Ice Age and now are friends with a clan of humans. Some of the Neanderthals like Lucy are best friends with some of the humans (Sasha), but her brother, Andy, is not enjoying the humans that are living in his cave with him. One human child, named Richard, especially annoys him by making fun of him. But he does make friends with a boy named Tommy who is scared of cave bears.

Lucy and Andy have fun with their new friends. They go to the beach and collect shells. They also face a cave bear. In the end, Sasha’s mom has a new child and so Sasha becomes an older sister.

Marshmallow is reading Lucy and Andy Neanderthal: Stone Cold Age by Jeffrey Brown. — Marshmallow is reading *Lucy and Andy Neanderthal: Stone Cold Age* by Jeffrey Brown.

Marshmallow’s Review: I enjoyed this book very much. Like the last book I reviewed this is a graphic novel. It has funny drawing and will make readers read it in one sitting. This book has excellent characters that are amusing, relatable, and interesting. It also has facts that intertwine fiction and nonfiction.

“Fact and fiction cleverly collide in this prehistoric romp.“
Shelf Awareness

The above quote describes this excellent book well. It is fun and entertaining to think about how humans and neanderthals must have interacted. The book is full of facts but is also completely hilarious. If you enjoyed the first book, you will certainly enjoy this one too.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading and rereading this terrific book about Neanderthals and the Ice Age. The author, Jeffrey Brown, draws hilarious drawings that describe that characters personalities. This is a very good book that can be read and reread over and over again. I would recommend it to any and all bunnies who like books and want to laugh out loud while reading.

Marshmallow’s Rating: 100%.

Marshmallow rates Lucy and Andy Neanderthal: Stone Cold Age by Jeffrey Brown 100%. — Marshmallow rates *Lucy and Andy Neanderthal: Stone Cold Age* by Jeffrey Brown 100%.

Marshmallow reviews Lucy and Andy Neanderthal by Jeffrey Brown

Marshmallow reviews Lucy & Andy Neanderthal, the first book in the Lucy & Andy Neanderthal series of Jeffrey Brown.

Marshmallow and Caramel recently got their paws on books by Jeffrey Brown. A couple weeks ago, Caramel reviewed his, My Teacher is a Robot. Today Marshmallow reviews hers, the first book in the Lucy & Andy Neanderthal series of Jeffrey Brown: Lucy & Andy Neanderthal.

Marshmallow reviews Lucy & Andy Neanderthal by Jeffrey Brown. — Marshmallow reviews *Lucy & Andy Neanderthal* by Jeffrey Brown.

Marshmallow’s quick take: If you like comic books or fiction books that also have some facts about interesting stuff, then this might be the book for you.

Marshmallow’s Summary (with spoilers): Lucy & Andy Neanderthal is a comic book about a brother and a sister, Lucy and Andy Neanderthal, who are two Neanderthal kids living in the Stone Age. They have a little brother, Danny, and share their cave with a few other people including two older kids, Phil and Margaret. Andy really wants to join their family when they go to hunt, but his parents will not let him because hunting mammoth is too dangerous.

Lucy and Andy have many adventures. One of them, “Substitute Babysitters”, starts with a rock Andy throws that hits Phil on the head by accident. Phil’s head swells. Lucy, Andy, and Margaret take Phil to Lucy and Andy’s mother so she can help him. She goes looking for medicine, and leaves Andy and Lucy to look after their little brother, Danny, while Margaret looks after Phil.

Danny finds a stick and starts banging it around. Lucy takes the stick from him, and Andy gives another stick to Danny. Lucy keeps finding a problem with the sticks Andy offers to Danny, like how it is too small and how Danny could choke on it. Then Danny starts crying and Andy gives him another stick, but Danny slaps it away. Then they follow Danny to the cave where Margaret offers him some berries. Danny eats the berries and then he throws up. Lucy has Andy clean it up and then Andy gets mad and imitates Lucy. Lucy farts and then blames it on Andy. In the midst of this chaos, Danny sneaks away.

Once the older kids realize that Danny sneaked away, they start to panic. They start looking for Danny and find Danny’s pants. Phil thinks that Danny must have been eaten, but Andy says that Danny always takes his pants off. Eventually they find Danny and get him to come back to the cave.

The above probably already gives you a sense of the kinds of stories in the book. They are always hilarious! But close to the end of the book, the Neanderthals meet the humans. The humans invite the Neanderthals over to dinner because they ate the leftovers of the mammoth that the Neanderthals hunted. Will the two groups be friends or mortal enemies?

Marshmallow is pointing to a typical page of Lucy & Andy Neanderthal by Jeffrey Brown. — Marshmallow is pointing to a typical page of *Lucy & Andy Neanderthal* by Jeffrey Brown.

Marshmallow’s review: Lucy & Andy Neanderthal is a very funny book. Jeffrey Brown’s drawings are very successful, and the writing is very clear, so even a reader who has never read a comic book before can enjoy reading the book.

The main characters are fictional Neanderthals living in the Stone Age, but there are also two scientist characters who tell us facts that relate to the stories. They tell us about the first toothbrush for instance, and the differences between the modern humans and the Neanderthals. There are more facts at the end of the book. For instance, you can learn there that Neanderthal women hunted, too:

“Scientists still debate whether men hunted more, but Neanderthal women at least participated in some, if not all, hunting.”

I enjoyed this book very much and reread it many times. I highly recommend it to people who like comic books and Neanderthals. Of course you might not know you like Neanderthals before reading the book. So why don’t you just give it a try?

Marshmallow’s rating: 100%

Marshmallow rates Lucy & Andy Neanderthal by Jeffrey Brown 100%. — Marshmallow rates *Lucy & Andy Neanderthal* by Jeffrey Brown 100%.