This is part of a series of posts sponsored by the Costa Book Awards but all opinions and thoughts are my own.įrom Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner Katherine Rundell comes an exciting new novel about a group of kids who must survive in the Amazon after their plane crashes.įred, Con, Lila, and Max are on their way back to England from Manaus when the plane they’re on crashes and the pilot dies upon landing. Keep reading for my spoiler free thoughts! Not only is children’s fiction not my usual genre, I don’t tend to gravitate towards jungle adventure stories but after checking out Goodreads, I saw that a lot of people loved this story and so I was excited to get stuck into it. This is the third post in my series of reviews: The Explorer by Katherine Rundell. If you want to find out more about the Awards and read the shortlist, check out my post here.
With no hope of rescue, the chance of getting home feels impossibly small.If you’ve happened to read any of my previous posts, you’ll have seen that this year I’m working with Costa Coffee on their Costa Book Awards* (and if you didn’t know, well… I’m working with Costa Coffee on their Costa Book Awards!) and I’m going to be reviewing each of the books in the Children’s category throughout December. He and the three other children may be alive, but the jungle is a vast, untamed place. If only he could land and look about him.Īs the plane crashes into the canopy, Fred is suddenly left without a choice. He has always dreamed of becoming an explorer, of making history and of reading his name amongst the lists of great discoveries. 'Read everything she writes' Daily Mailįrom his seat in the tiny aeroplane, Fred watches as the mysteries of the Amazon jungle pass by below him. 'Rundell is now unarguably in the FIRST RANK' Philip Pullman Winner of the London Book Fair Children's Travel Book of the Year Winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 2017 Go on an adventure with Katherine Rundell.
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