Serapio Ittusardjuat recounts the traditional skills and knowledge he leaned on to stay alive after his snowmobile broke down halfway across the sea ice on a trip home from a fishing camp.

This harrowing first-person account of four nights spent on the open sea ice — with few supplies and no water—shows young readers the determination and strength necessary to survive in the harsh Arctic climate, even when the worst occurs. (From Inhabit Media)

How I Survived is a finalist for the 2022 Silver Birch Express Award, which celebrates fiction books for readers in Grades 3-4.

Serapio Ittusardjuat is a residential school survivor, a certified journeyman mechanic and comes from a long line of walrus hunters. The Toronto-based author also has studied art, jewellery making and metalwork at Ottawa School of Art and Nunavut Arctic College.

Matthew K. Hoddy is a Toronto-based illustrator and comic book author from Australia.