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Lara Hawthorne
This is an imaginative animal adventure with a clear home-and-exploration shape, enriched by detailed wildlife imagery and factual material about a real rat and its rainforest habitat.
Anita Ganeri
This offers a broad introduction to earthquakes, combining causes and scientific ideas with historical examples, folklore and practical information about prediction and survival. Its humour and cartoons are central to the presentation.
Satoshi Kitamura
This is an illustrated adventure that uses a boy’s encounter with Stone Age life to introduce practical processes and archaeological curiosity. Its open-ended dream-or-time-travel premise invites discussion rather than a single definite explanation.
David Long
Readers get a varied set of true survival accounts, from exploration and shipwreck to accidents and medical crises, with illustrations highlighting pivotal moments. The emphasis is on extraordinary ordeals rather than one continuous narrative.
Christina Balit
Expect a visually led introduction to Pompeii, volcanoes and geographical language, anchored by two children escaping the eruption. The story is brief, while maps and illustrations extend the factual and historical setting.
Peter Lantos
A child’s-eye memoir about displacement, family love and survival, moving from wartime adventure-like discoveries towards the realities of bombing, Bergen-Belsen, starvation, illness and bereavement.
Andy McNab
This is a practical, illustrated guide that treats survival broadly: outdoor preparation and emergencies sit alongside city safety and online risks. Its appeal lies in actionable scenarios, visual references and concise sections rather than a continuous story.
Marcus Sedgwick
Expect a bleak flooded setting, solitary travel, danger from other young people and a determined search for family. The ending is described as positive, although the journey is repeatedly presented as harrowing and gloomy.
Shaun David Hutchinson
This is an emotionally candid memoir about depression, coming out and survival. It offers a first-person account of painful experiences alongside reflection on identity, social messages, relationships, memory and the gradual work of finding self-acceptance.
Coby Coonradt and Cameron Hardy, illustrated by Victoria Stebleva
A playful survival manual built around imagined disasters and fantasy threats. Its humour, contemporary voice and cartoony illustrations may make the subject approachable.
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