What If?: A Kid's Guide to Surviving Just about Anything.

Richard Morgan, Lynne Gibbs. Brighter Child, $6.95 (64pp) ISBN 978-1-57768-990-4

Youngsters learn to manage sticky situations without coming unglued in What If? A Kid's Guide to Surviving Just About Anything by Lynne Gibbs, illus. by Richard Morgan. The paperback volume offers practical advice for country- and city-dwellers, such as ""How to survive in the wilderness"" and ""Encounters with dangerous animals,"" as well as more commonsense tips on first aid and more (e.g., ""Stranger Danger... Unless a parent or caregiver has told you that it is safe to do so, never go off with someone you do not know"").

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