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. It has an enthralling plot, brilliant originality in its use of language and for the four children and the reader, a very satisfactory ending.█████████████████████████████████████████████████ He refuses, ferociously, to offer them easy answers, but he does unite them into a powerful team. This adult is complex and dangerous from him, the children learn not only some skills they need to survive but also some lessons about the fragility of the planet and their responsibility to protect it and all of the people who live on it. Nor, when the children find 'The Explorer' of the title, are we treated to an easy happy ending with a brave adult ready to save the day. This is no 'Famous Five' adventure the terror, the hunger and the danger are all real, and the sense of peril from the children's predicament is constant. Their attempts to work together, to agree on and execute a plan, to support each other when they are frightened are sympathetically but realistically portrayed.

Perhaps they are young teenagers Fred, who dreams of becoming a famous explorer, longs to impress his distant father by his bravery Con, stiff and unloved, has to learn to adapt to the needs of the others and Lila carries the constant responsibility for getting her brother home safely to her scientist parents. The author cleverly leaves her readers slightly disorientated we do not know exactly when these events are taking place, or how old the three older children are. Lost and unprotected, the three older children are left to provide for themselves and to keep five-year-old Max from harm-and there is plenty of potential harm on offer, vividly and powerfully described, from the wildlife in the forest, the lack of food and their eventual escape route on the river itself. Katherine Rundell, in her latest novel, crashes her readers, along with the four children at the heart of the story, into the heart of the Amazon rain forest. APA style: Rundell, Katherine: The Explorer.

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The Explorer by Katherine Rundell