To ask for ideas for children's literature about living in the wilderness

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It's all my 10 yo ds talks about.
Living in a log cabin, hunting animals, gathering plants, using roots to dye cloth.

He's into books, and has no idea what he wants for Christmas, so I'm wanting to source a books about his passion.
Novels and non fiction, but he has the SAS survival guide.

I will get him the Little House series( Laura Ingles), but I'd like to find something with a male protagonist too.

TIA

Don't think anyone's mentioned

Susan Cooper 'Ghost Hawk'.

This is very different to her 'The Dark is arising' series. Probably fits into YA genre. Superbly written but quite hard hitting.

The Secret Island by Enid Blyton. I loved that book growing up!

Illiterate phone changed 'The Dark is Rising'.

The Tarzan books, I loved those.
Willard price
Dr Doolittle
Arthur ransome
The wolves of Willoughby chase

I too vote for 'Hatchet', there are several sequels also if he enjoys book one.

Would also recommend Running Wild by Michael Morpurgo, Taylor Five by Ann Halam and Big Game by Dan Smith.

Not people, but animals making their way home through the wilderness: The Incredible Journey. I absolutely loved this one.

Thank you to pp for the reminder of the title of Brendon Chase! I was thinking of the book but couldn't remember what it was called, only the author 'BB'.

'Rascal' by Sterling North - set in Wisconsin during WW1, the author describes his own boyhood as he raises a baby raccoon. Lots and lots of their travels in the wilderness - I loved the bit where he builds his own (big) canoe in the sitting room and everyone just has to live round it.

Also Walkabout

Eva Ibbotson's Journey to the River Sea, has female protagonist but also a strong male main character who lives in the Amazon.

Malcolm Saville's Lone Pine Series is set in the Shropshire Hills, they camp and stuff like Famous Five but it's better written.

He would probably enjoy John Buchan's "John MacNab" which is about a load of MPs, barristers etc post WWI who go a bit mad with boredom and challenge some Scottish landowners - they end up poaching fish and deer. It's good fun and really evocative.

About that age I also enjoyed Joe Simpson's Touching the Void (true story of a mountaineer, I went without food so I could read what happened next).

At about that age my son got a bit obsessed with Lost on a Mountain in Maine which is a true story.

I was going to say Ronia the Robbers Daughter too. Lovely book.

Sorry, placemarking to read later a

Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo

Thank you thank you thank you! This thread could have been written with my son in mind. Ever since he looked at the Stone Age period at school his imagination has been fired up; he’s going to go on an ‘adventure’ when he’s 13 apparently and when he returns he will settle down to live in a cave in the woods. Slightly worried that going along with it all will encourage him, but by the same token don’t want to stop him dreaming. He’s only 7 bless him. Good reading age (he loves the Bear Grylss books), but sensitive so I struggle with finding books that that are pitched at the right level for him. Plenty of ideas here for me to investigate

Slightly off track, but several of the Rosemary Sutcliff books involve historical survival. Dawn Wind is about a boy who is the lone survivor of a Saxon battle and has to find his way back to his people and survive during the Saxon invasion. Outcast is about a boy who was shipwrecked in an ancient British village and then cast out later and ends up in a Roman slave galley.

White Fang by Jack London. Someone already said Call of the Wild.

There's a book called Call of the Wild, My Escape to Alaska by Guy Grieve. It tells the true story of him jacking in his job as a journalist in Scotland and his adventure to Alaska where he builds a log cabin. My 10 year old read it and cried when it was finished! I've read it too, great read.

William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" is my favourite book ever but only since reading it again as an adult.
Read it for English at 14-15yo and I bloody hated it.

I keep trying to persuade my DD (doing GCSE) to read it but she's

Probably not a 10yo book ?

haven't read the thread but Farm boy, is in the little house series and has a boy.

Box car children is a series about some orphans that live in an abandoned train carriage in the woods...

Oh yes The Secret Island. I read it hundreds of times as a kid

came on to recommend 'my side of the mountain' which was given us by an american friend, had no idea it was so well known, also the wolf brother series is fab

ILoveDolly , I came on to suggest Ronja the Robber's Daughter too! Lovely book.

Willard Price is amazing. Swallows and Amazons (and the rest of the series).

I grew up messing around on boats so these were truly incredible for me.

There's a book called Up the Yukon without a Paddle, a true account of a British couple who set out to live a life in the wilderness of the Yukon.

Great book.