I teach fifth graders, and they are obsessed with disasters. They love learning about natural (and not-so-natural) disasters. They are forever devising truly worst-case scenario situations and thinking about how they would handle them. This book is accessible and I am excited for it to have a place on my classroom shelf.

This book contains a wide range of worst-case scenarios, from tsunamis, to runaway camels, to charging hippos. While the book is appropriately text heavy, the text is written in an accessable and conversational manner, and there are enough pictures to make it engaging, and small sections under various headings and subheadings make it less overwhelming for readers. I highly recommend this for upper elementary and middle school classrooms.

This is a fun choice for outdoorsy kids, boy scout types, those who like camping. It would also be good for the Who Would Win crowd.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC. I purchased for my library.

Does your child dream of taking big adventures? Does your child want to be just like Indiana Jones? Or is your child the type of kid who wants to know the answer to all kinds of hypothetical questions? This new edition of the popular Worst-Case Scenario books covers all kinds of extreme situations you might find yourself in.

Do you know what to do if you are charged by a rhinoceros? How about escaping from the grip of a python? Will you be crossing piranha-infested waters any time soon? This book has all the answers you need.

In reality, though, you may not need to know how to escape an elephant stampede, but knowing how to navigate with only the stars in the sky could come in helpful. Maybe you won’t even need to know how to escape a crocodile but knowing how to go to the bathroom (#2) in the woods might come in handy someday.

With witty stories and kid-focused details, the authors have created 40 extreme worst-case scenarios that you might face. Tips like fending off a shark or avoiding a lightning strike can actually be a situation you might find yourself in. With the included information, if you ever find yourself in a tricky situation, you will hopefully be able to use your wits and knowledge to find a way out. A lot of their tips are common sense, but when talking about how to survive falling through the ice or escaping from quicksand, the skills are about the same.

Adventurous kids or fact-lovers will find this book a joy to read and talk about with their friends or at the dinner table. The authors didn’t just do their own research, they also asked experts who reviewed the tips and offered their advice. Thanks to these experts, “Mountain Mel” Deweese, John Lindner, and Charles Maciejewski for sharing these important tips.

The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook for Kids is part of a series. This book was intended for 8-12 year-olds, but I doubt those children would enjoy or get much out of it.
Although I have not read other titles in this series, I did read (and loved!) Anthony Greenbank's'The Book of Survival as a young teen. I was hoping this would be similar and that I could share it with at least one of my grandchildren. I was wrong about that.
While the Worst-Case book does contain some helpful tips on things like managing a camel or falling through thin ice, most of the chapters are extremely far-fetched. How many 8-12 year olds are likely to go on safari in Africa or travel to the Poles without adult supervision? The instructions for building a raft made of logs if stranded on a desert island are so rudmentary as to be useless. (How many kids carry axes or have the skills to construct a functional raft?) Similarly pointless is the suggestion for decorating the iceflow on which one has been trapped.
Each chapter concludes with a list of "facts" from which the reader is to choose which are real and which ridiculous. This, like too many of the jokes (wait for the moose to leave and become an accountant) felt like padding.
A good survival book empowers the reader with the idea that he or she can actually survive. This one offers too many confusing details about things like whether one is to climb, run, or lie down and play dead depending upon which animal is attacking. I can't imagine any adult, let alone a child, having the presence of mind to memorize all those details.
I'll give two stars for the useful pieces of information (elevate a snakebite, check your shoes for scorpions, don't drink salt water, don't touch a bear cub, etc.) but I'll look elsewhere for a guide to my grandson's survival.
I would like to thank the publisher and NetGalley for a free copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

This was such a funny book to read with my kids. Surviving even the most obscure, unforseen circumstances are all included! We learned a lot!!

Thank you to Quirk Books and NetGalley for the eGalley to review!

This is no doubt the funniest survival guide I've read and it is certainly an incredibly helpful one at that! Even adults could do with having this handy dandy handbook around in the car or a travel pack. I can see kids eating it all right up, trying out some of the techniques in the book just to see if they can do them (in preparation, of course--even if they never step foot into any of these biomes or situations), and excitedly reciting the included fun facts in conversation.

Seriously, it covers all major terrains of the world and their most dangerous of situations. An appendix in the back gives even more helpful general advice, including how to tell directions without a compass, how to signal to help, helpful situations in different languages for extreme situations, and regional foods that you might want to know what they are before you eat them.

If you are a scout leader, a teacher, a librarian, or a parent who wants to take the kids out camping (or to any of the places in the book), this handbook will be a fun book to hand to the kids. They're going to love it.

Excellent, accessible format perfect for kids ages 6+, with real life situations handled with humor and appropriate strategies. For example, when faced with a bear, making lots of noise, or if you see the water of the ocean receding dramatically, get away, since there might be a tsunami. Solid purchase for a family or library collection!

I used to love the Worst Case Scenario book in upper-elementary school. This one was definitely a more leveled-down version, and I missed the depth of the old full version, but overall my 8-year-old found it very engaging.

For those kids who do better when they're prepared. Those curiosity bound who just have to know, "what if?" Some interesting tidbits that might make over worriers that tend to not do well with "what if's" squirm a bit though.

Survivalist and adventure fans hit information for hardcore situations, and that with tons of humor tossed in.

From ice landscapes to jungles...from Africa to South America and more, this read visits dangerous and sticky situations, which readers may or may not ever face, from all ends of the globe. Surviving a shipwreck on an island, facing down a mountain lion, or even understanding the first hints of a tsunami no longer count to secret skills after hitting these pages. The chapters divide up the possible predicaments by settings (jungle, ice, etc.), give a one paragraph introduction, and then dive into several scenarios and how to deal with them with short tips and hints.

Some skills are useful and good-to-know. Others are interesting but probably will never arise...which doesn't mean the information is useless, though. Each situation is delivered with a sense of adventure and humor, which never underplays the true danger but keeps it light-hearted and fun. The information holds general, easy tips (nothing overly technical) and will have readers proud that they know some things others probably don't. The information is also correct, which does add to the all-around-knowledge aspect and really can help out if the need arises. It's an extremely varied mix, which adds to the fun.

The writing is very fitting for the middle grade audience. The reader is directly addressed, and while the authors 'play' with each scenario and add jokes, they never talk down to the readers, either. It guarantees smiles and also helps the information sit better in the memory. There are added questions toward the end of each chapter, which hold a bit of real information checking but also offer ridiculous answer possibilities to bring snorts and giggles. The illustrations also add humor but do help readers understand the information given in the text (like how to construct emergency shelters).

It's a fun read with tons of information, too, and I do see readers enjoying this one quite a bit.

Even though the style shows a great sense of humor, the advice in this book is real and practical. You can learn everything from how to survive at sea to how to survive an avalanche to how to survive a volcano eruption! My favorite part, though, was the practical advice on positions you can use to go potty outside. Even though this is written for children, adults would do well to read this before going into situations that might be dangerous. Thanks to NetGalley for letting me read this hilarious but practical survival handbook.

A fun book that will definitely appeal to those who 1. like facts and 2. who find it difficult to drag themselves through a novel. The style is fun without being over dummified, the text clear and interspersed with colour illustrations making it easy to absorb facts that can be later divulged to impress friends and family.

Consulting with experts in expeditions and survival tecnhiques, these cover scenarios from the quite likely (depending on where you live and holiday) to the extreme.
Recommended for 8-12 years and very much so for reluctant readers

I love these books! Especially for my students. As soon as I saw that they came out with a version geared toward kids, I knew I had to read it! This book is fun, engaging, filled with random facts and can be read in small chunks to make it doable for struggling readers.

This is such a sweet and somewhat educational guide for kids to help them navigate worst case scenarios and get the thought process going on how to deal with obstacles they are faced with. A great teaching tool.

This is an absolute must-buy for children. The bit on how to poop in the woods is priceless. My students would totally love this one. I wouldn't call it informative but it is definitely hilarious.

I love this book. I know many kids that will devour it. Useful information. Some of the topics seemed far fetched to encounter but was told in an interesting and entertaining format. I just spent some time in a coastal community with high surf and riptides. It was difficult trying to explain this to preteens and teens. They didn’t understand the problem. Meanwhile there were deaths daily from the conditions. I wish those topics and a few others that are more common issues were covered.