Kathleen Fidler Books

Kathleen Fidler’s The Boy with the Bronze Axe is a chapter book that sums up the achievements of the early Bronze Age well. Set in the Scottish settlement of Skara Brae at the very end of the Stone Age and just before the dawn of the Bronze Age, The Boy with the Bronze Axe is a well-researched story filled with exciting challenges and mysteries.

Perfect for confident readers or as a mid- and upper- KS2 class novel, the book explores the changes between the Neolithic period and the discovery of bronze. As characters who had only ever seen stone tools respond to bronze, there is an opportunity to consider what the discovery meant to people who had never seen it before and why it impacted the prehistoric lifestyle.