From The Hunger Games to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, children’s books can demonstrate a somewhat lax approach to disaster and death. Ross Montgomery, author of The Tornado Chasers, shares his favourite books for danger lovers.
Give a group of children the opportunity to hurt themselves and they’ll come up trumps every time. This means they spend most of their childhood being told to not do anything even remotely unsafe. While these instructions are usually reasonable, they make no sense to children because they’ve never had the opportunity to learn why they shouldn’t run downstairs in wet shoes with a tray full of scissors. Fiction is one of the few…
