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

[Ohyesiam]

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

Survivors by David Long- not literature as such... retold true stories of amazing survival situations in remote and harsh environments. My DS (9) was GRIPPED and begging for more!!! Beautifully illustrated too.
Bear Grylls does a version for adults- but his has some harrowing prisoner of war camp survival stories not best suited for 10 year olds.
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0571339662/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ref=plSrch&keywords=survivors&dpPl=1&dpID=51DADHw2VlL&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&tag=mumsnetforum-21&ie=UTF8&qid=1511691799&sr=8-1

Tomorrow when the war began, great Australian series of books set in the present day Australia but after an event where the country has been invaded. A group of kids set up on their own in the Montains to avoid being captured and do resistance work.

Also- the ultimate survival in the wilderness- Robinson Crusoe- perhaps not the original. The old language is a bit too difficult for 10 year olds and there is to little survival and too much fighting savages in the latter part of the original. I got a great kids version out of the library and read it to my DS (9).
Also, a bit off piste , but Stig of the Dump- I love the ingenuity of how Stig adapts the tip rubbish to make tools and gadgets a home for himself. It’s like Stone Age boy surviving in a modern environment. The PP whose son was inspired by Stone Age history might enjoy it too.

Running Wild by Michael Morpurgo and Gorilla Dawn by Gill Lewis (although it has a girl main character but there are loads of younger male characters as well)
Both are brilliant books.

Hiding Out by Elizabeth Laird. About a little boy who is accidentally left behind at a family picnic and has to survive in a cave. It’s great!

There must be some books about living in south London!

Malcolm Saville's Lone Pine Series is set in the Shropshire Hills

They're not all in the Shropshire hills and they're not camping a lot of the time. The ones set in Rye they're normally at Jon and Penny's hotel, and even in the Shropshire hill ones they're often in Witchend or Seven Gates, although in the latter they're fending for themselves with support from the farm.
Lone Pine Five and The Secret of the Gorge they are definitely camping out, they are for at least part of Neglected Mountain, but I think they're based at Seven gates for some.

The Nettleford series by Malcolm Saville are more wilderness camping from my memory, but they're definitely out of print.

they camp and stuff like Famous Five but it's better written.
I'd agree with that though.

Owls in the Family by Farley Mowat, and if he's fairly mature in his reading, Never Cry Wolf by the same author. Mowat was a famous Canadian naturalist and conservationist.

Lenski's Prairie School - it's set in 1950's America and is about what happens when the new teacher and her 'welcome committee' (two children) get snowed into the shack that serves as a school-room

I've been wondering for years about this book! I read it at school but had forgotten the title!

^^ Tomorrow When the War Began is a wonderful series of books, but I would be very hesitant about recommending them for a 10 year old boy. They're full of pretty graphic violence plus teenage girl's romance and sex thoughts.

Enid Blyton, The Secret Island.

Oh yes, forgot about the sex bits of Tomorrow when the war began. Scrap that.

Did anyone suggest Alabama Moon? I'm reading it ATM and loving it.

Running Wild by Michael Morpurgo, Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver, The Explorer by Katherine Rundell.