Staying Alive The Story of a Food Chain

Staying Alive: The Story of a Food Chain is an illustrated children’s science book by Jacqui Bailey, with artwork by Matthew Lilly. It follows a food chain on the African grasslands, explaining how plants make food from sunlight, insects eat plants, birds eat insects, zebras graze on grass, and lions prey on zebras.

Part of the Science Works series, the book explains producers, consumers, and the interdependence of living things through lively narrative text and cartoon-style illustrations. It also includes an experiment, additional facts, useful websites, and an index.

The original edition was published in 2003, with later editions issued by Picture Window Books and Bloomsbury. The 2025 revised edition is 32 pages and has ISBN 9781801996402.