Staying Alive: The Story of a Food Chain
By (Author) Jacqui Bailey
Illustrated by Matthew Lilly
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Bloomsbury Education
3rd February 2026
23rd October 2025
United Kingdom
Children
Non Fiction
Educational: Sciences, general science
577.16
Paperback
32
Width 230mm, Height 210mm
The Science Works series use cartoon style illustrations and lively narrative text to make key topics in science both accessible and engaging.
Two legs, four legs, 100 legs or none every animal needs food to keep it alive, and all of our food comes from other living things.
In this revised edition from Jacqui Bailey, we follow the story of a food chain on the grasslands of Africa. We find out how plants create their food from sunlight, the way insects feed on plants and birds feed on insects. We learn how zebras feed on grass, and lions feed on zebras and that each creature has its own source of food and forms part of the food chain. This book also contains an experiment, more great facts to know, useful websites and an index.
Ideal for readers age 6+.
Jacqui Bailey has spent a lot of her adult life working with children's books. She has been an editor and publisher of everything from picture books to encyclopaedias, but mostly enjoys finding out amazing bits of information and then writing about them. She is an award-winning author with more than 20 children's information books to her name, including A Cartoon History of the Earth series.
Matthew Lilly is an illustrator with over 40 years of experience in children's publishing. He has designed and illustrated a variety of fiction and non-fiction titles for several publishers and organisations including Walker books, Hachette and A & C Black.