The Official National Geographic Kids Survival Guide

From the experts of exploration at National Geographic, this practical, wide-ranging wilderness survival guide gives kids the know-how to start a fire, build a shelter, escape an avalanche, and so much more!

Do you have what it takes to be a National Geographic Explorer? In this handy adventure guidebook, readers will gain all the necessary survival know-how needed to make it in the wild. They’ll learn practical skills, like how to pack their bag, pitch a tent, navigate using the stars, and identify toxic plants. And they’ll learn to keep their cool in unlikely but harrowing situations like a flash flood or blackout.

Brimming with real world, kid-tested scenarios, this book will build the reader's confidence to explore the great outdoors through easy-to-read chunks of text and photographic step-by-step instructions. National Geographic Explorers will even share their knowledge and expertise with each journey! Whether you're heading out on an adventure or dreaming of one, each chapter features tips and tricks required in every setting from the mountains and forests to the oceans and desert, and even at home! So what are you waiting for? It's time to explore!

Complete your explorer's library with these guides to the great outdoors:

• Ultimate Explorer Guide
• Ultimate Explorer Field Guide Trees
• Ultimate Explorer Field Guide Night Sky
• Ultimate Explorer Field Guide Birds
• Ultimate Explorer Field Guide Insects

"Eye-catching images accompany the informative text and make for content that young readers will find easily digestible....this title will pull kids in." —School Library JournalJULIE BEER is a long-standing contributor to National Geographic Kids. Her works include Penguins vs. Puffins, Piglets vs. Pugs, multiple books in the hit Weird But True! and 5,000 Awesome Facts series, This or That? 4, Get Outside Guide, and Ultimate Explorer Field Guide: Birds, among others. She currently lives in northern California with her two daughters, a dog, a cat, and a guinea pig.