You and your family are on a camping trip, one that is meant to be relaxing and fun. However, when you & your sister get caught out in a thunderstorm, the situation shifts dramatically. You are forced to rely on skills for surviving the outdoors you learned about in a book your father gave you. Every little decision you make can cause a completely different outcome. Will you be able to survive!?
My son John & I read this book together. I was always a fan of “Choose Your Own” adventures as a child. When I was pitched this book by Winsome Media, I thought it would be the perfect book for John. He’s a cub scout and loves adventures.
The first time we read the book, it didn’t have the best outcome. However, we learned from our decisions and made better ones. I think this is an important lesson for children, to realize how important the outcomes of your decisions can be. Finally, we were able to get out of the dangerous woods & back safely to our family!
Lost in the Wild is an incredibly exciting, as well as educational, book to read! While both John & I thought we were well-versed in survival skills, we learned soon we could have used a bit more knowledge. The author does a great job of providing helpful hints along the way to help you make your decision. He weighs all the options for you, usually making it pretty easy to make your decision. That said, John has never been good about making a decision and sometimes it took up to ten minutes of debating to chose our next move!
The book also provides some simple, yet incredibly important camping safety tips, outdoor survival skills, and references at the back of the book.
A bit of warning: all of the outcomes are realistic, but can be quite devastating. Therefore, I wouldn’t recommend this for anyone under the age of 10. John is 11, and we had to have a long talk about one of the outcomes we had. As with reading any book, it’s a good idea to have a discussion about it afterward.
John & I highly recommend this book to all fans of adventure! While the main character is a boy, I think girls would enjoy this as well.
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