Dead or Alive
By Clive Gifford

From Clive Gifford, award-winning author of 100 Inventions that
Made History and the Kingfisher Football Encyclopedia, comes
thisand extraordinary look at the miraculous ways that creaturesand can
survive. Meet the incredible survivors of the animal world: heroic pets, frauds and fakers,and long-living legends and sneaky tricksters.and Dead or Alive? features all sorts ofand curious creatures, includingand tough tardigrades, courageous cats, plucky pigeonsand andand even zombie crabs! Brought to life with the hilarious artwork of Sarah Horne, illustrator of My Brilliant Life and Other Disasters. The more extreme aspects of the animal kingdom will enthrall young readers aged 7+. Look out for Clive's other unmissable books The Ultimate Animal Criminals and Atlas Oddities. Clive Gifford is an award-winning author of books for children and adults including the astonishingand Dead or Alive, the creepyand Book of Bad Thingsand and the brain manglingand Think Againand andand Eye Benders.
He is passionate that books should entertain, inform and amaze whenever
possible. A contributor to Encyclopedia Britannica, Clive's books have
won School Library Association, PBS, Smithsonian and Times Educational
Supplement, as well as the prestigious Royal Society Young People's Book
Prize. Sarah lives in London, and has illustrated many children's books includingand Monster House,and The Sesame Seade Mysteriesand andand Guinea Pigs Online.and Continuously
drawing from a young age, Sarah's strength is in her draftsmanship and
line work, she loves colour and one of the real joys of her illustration
work is adding the extra humour in the detail. Sarah likes to travel,
loves music, she doesn't care for mice and loves a good cup of coffee.