The Danger Zone (book series)

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The Danger Zone is an on-going series of illustrated children's non-fiction books published in the United Kingdom by Book House, an imprint of the Salariya Book Company. Numerous non-English language versions are also available. The same series is published in the USA by Scholastic under the name You Wouldn't Want To Be.
The series is intended to interest young children in history, by combining a factual eyewitness narrative with cartoon-style illustrations. It has become widely used in UK primary schools, as many of the titles are appropriate to the teaching of KS2 history. The books are written by different authors (Mark Bergin, Peter Cook, Meredith Costain, Michael Ford, Ian Graham, Jen Green, Peter Hicks, Colin Hynson, Andrew Langley, Fiona MacDonald, John Malam, Rupert Matthews, Jacqueline Morley, Jim Pipe, Thomas Ratliff, Kathryn Senior, David Stewart), and are illustrated by David Antram, with the exception of Avoid sailing on the Mayflower which is illustrated by Kevin Whelan, and Avoid fighting in the First Crusade which is illustrated by Mark Bergin.

Titles

  • ''Avoid being a Mammoth Hunter!
  • Avoid becoming an Egyptian Pyramid Builder!
  • Avoid being a Sumerian Slave!
  • Avoid being Tutankhamun!
  • Avoid being an Assyrian Soldier!
  • Avoid being Cleopatra!
  • Avoid entering The Ancient Greek Olympics!
  • Avoid being in Alexander the Great’s Army!
  • Avoid working on the Great Wall of China!
  • Avoid being a Slave in Pompeii!
  • Avoid being a Roman Soldier!
  • Avoid being a Mayan Soothsayer!
  • Avoid becoming an Aztec Sacrifice!
  • Avoid being in a Medieval Dungeon!
  • Avoid being a Medieval Knight!
  • Avoid fighting in the First Crusade!
  • Avoid being an Incan Mummy!
  • Avoid sailing with Christopher Columbus!
  • Avoid being Mary, Queen of Scots!
  • Avoid sailing in the Spanish Armada!
  • Avoid sailing with Francis Drake!
  • Avoid being a Tudor Colonist!
  • Avoid sailing on the Mayflower!
  • Avoid working in the Forbidden City!
  • Avoid exploring with Captain Cook!
  • Avoid being a Convict sent to Australia!
  • Avoid becoming a Pirates’ Prisoner!
  • Avoid being an Aristocrat in the French Revolution!
  • Avoid sailing on a 19th-century Whaling Ship!
  • Avoid working in a Victorian Mill!
  • Avoid sailing on an Irish Famine Ship!
  • Avoid being a Victorian Servant!
  • Avoid sailing on the Titanic!
  • Avoid joining Shackleton’s Polar Expedition!
  • Avoid being a Second World War Evacuee!
  • Avoid being on Apollo 13!
  • Avoid being a salem witch!
  • Avoid working on the Statue of Liberty!
  • Avoid meeting a body snatcher!
  • Avoid flying on the Hindenburg!
  • Avoid being a skyscraper builder!
  • Avoid being a suffragette!

See also

You Wouldn't Want To Be
Salariya Book Company
Scribblers books