Survival: Could You Be an Otter?

by Fiona Pragoff and Roger Tabor

As an otter pursuing its daily life, the reader makes choices that will either insure its survival or cause its death. The text is conceived as a survival game with points given for correct choices. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824983610
• ISBN13: 9780824983611
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Ideals Publications
• Length: 30 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

kids love it; makes you think.

I wish they would reprint this entire Survival! series, darn it. We found the Otter one in a second-hand store and my 3- and 5-year-old adore it. What you do is, as you read, you have to choose the animal's actions out of two or more options. Will he go up the bank or try to catch the slow fish, etc.? Whichever action you choose has a consequence. It is sort of a naturalist's version of Goosebumps "You Choose the Scare", and much more informative. The author makes it clear that pollution and encroachment of humans on animal habitat make for a greater percentage of dangerous choices, which is why some types of wildlife are disappearing. Even after my little boy "learned" which choices were safest for the otter to make, ensuring a "survival" outcome, he still wanted to read it again and again. Though my preschoolers liked it, I would actually recommend it for ages 4-8.