num_pages: 342
description: Based on an Asimov short story, "The Ugly Little Boy". A children's nurse is hired as part of a scientific project aimed at bringing a living being from the past to the present. A four-year-old Neanderthal boy is snatched from his home and hurled 40,000 years into a terrifying future.
language: English
title: Child of Time
titlecomplete: Child of Time
characters: Timmie, She Who Knows, Edith Fellowes, Silver Cloud, Gerald Hoskins
genres: American, Science Fiction, Classics, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy, Time Travel, Speculative Fiction
ratings_count: 3324
publisher: Pan Macmillan