There are some really great tips in this book for a crash course in survival in the wild. The book, How To Survive In The Wilderness gives great ideas on how to prepare for an adventure out in the wilderness should you be interested in hiking or camping or even just exploring some unknown areas. However, not everyone who gets lost in the wild has been on an adventure that they have prepared for.
Sometimes people find themselves in the wilderness due to an accident or through a natural disaster. Tim O’Shei gives practical advice whether you are an adult or a child that can save your life if you should find yourself out in the wilderness without preparation. He teaches you how to find or make a shelter in all kinds of weather. He warns you about where you should build your shelter and why you need to consider changing weather patterns when you do build one.
In the book, Tim teaches you how to make a fire, how to find water when there is no obvious lake, river or pond; he even talks about warming up snow to get water so that you don’t lower your body temperature by just eating snow. This is important to maintain your body temperature because it could mean life or death.
There is a section in the picture book on finding food in the wild. He talks about what to look for and what to avoid; so that you don’t get sick from eating the wrong things. He also tells you how to store your food so that it doesn’t draw wild animals to your campsite or shelter; because that could be dangerous to have wild animals looking for food in the area where you are staying.
Another important part of the book teaches you how to make SOS signals that will get noticed by rescuers. They tell you where is the best place to go to be found. Some more practical advice given says not to go far from your original starting point. How to avoid getting trapped in the lowest valleys in case of flooding…and how to use the sky for directions when trying to find your way out of the wilderness.
How to survive in the wilderness is a book that is very useful. I think both boys and girls will enjoy learning some basic information on being independent in the woods. This book was published in 2009 by Capstone Press. You can find their website here: http://www.capstonepress.com It appears that there are about 6 titles in this series of How To Survive…. but they are not all by the same author. The other titles are: How to survive a flood, How to survive an eathquake, How to survive a tornado, How to survive being lost at sea, How to survive on a deserted island.
Marjorie Priceman has written a wonderful book of whimsy about making a cherry pie. She starts off telling us what we will need to make the pie, after she gives us a recipe. She tells us where to get the items we need to make the pie; at the cook shop. However, if the cook shop is closed…oh no, what do we need to do then? All of a sudden making a cherry pie becomes much more complicated and we need to do some traveling to get the supplies we need.
The book has a map of the United States and we do use it to travel to get the supplies that we need to make our cherry pie. Step by step the author teaches us to use some critical thinking to solve the problem of getting what we need. She takes us to states that have interesting facts and natural resources that when we put them to use will allow us to get the items that are needed for pie making. We really do see what the country has to offer us as we travel.
The illustration is colorful and fun. Who knew that there was so much activity required to make a cherry pie? This children’s picture book was published by Alred A Knopf in 2008. You can visit their website here: http://www.randomhouse.com/kids .
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