Stormy Weather

by Anita Ganeri

Read about the frozen turtles falling out of the sky, the man struck by lightning seven times who survived, the weather-watchers flying straight into the eye of a hurricane. Or read the weather safety manual, learn how to build a storm shelter or pick up survival tips on a tornado tour.

Genres: Nonfiction, Science, Geography, Childrens, Humor, Comics

208 pages, Paperback

First published September 17, 1999

About the author

Anita Ganeri is a highly experienced author of children’s information books, specialising in religion, India/Asia, multiculturalism, geography, biography and natural history. She became a freelance writer after working at Walker Books (as foreign rights manager) and Usborne Publishing (as an editor). Since then, she has written over 300 titles, including the best-selling Horrible Geography series for Scholastic. The series won the Geographical Association Silver Award in 1999 and was cited as being ‘an innovation that all geographers will applaud’. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society where she conducts most of her research for the books.

Reviews

[Sophie Crane · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fed up with miserable maps, rotten rock piles and impossible place names?
Wave goodbye to boring geography lessons as the windswept world of 'Stormy Weather' knocks you off your feet ...........
Gasp! ...at the frozen turtles that fell out of the sky.
Run for your life! ...as an angry tornado rips up houses from the ground.
Marvel!...at the man who was struck by lightning seven times....and survived.
Quake!...as gutsy weather-watchers fly straight into the eye of a hurricane.
And if that is not stormy enough for you....read our weather safety manual and learn how to build your own storm shelter, pick up crucial survival tips on our terrifying tornado tour and discover why wearing wellies in a thunderstorm might just save your life.
It's earth shatteringly exciting!
Geography has never been so horrible!

[Maleigha · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a wonderful, detailed guideline for a unit over weather. Starting off with practical questions such as, “what’s the weather like today” and later diving in to different aspects of weather such as snow, rainbows, lightning, and rain. The book contains a wider range of sentences structure and vocabulary; therefore it is challenging for the students and keeps them learning. You may use it for standard S4E3 and S4E4

[Pedro Flores · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best way to learn about the weather and climate conditions with lots of fun. Really educational for kids. Some stories are a bit outdated. Anyway it is worth it!

[Emma · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's ok, but not great.

[Nicola · Rating 5 out of 5]

Enjoyable and educational read learnt a few bits that I didn't know about too.

[Gyekye Tanoh · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was one of my favorite books cuz it has a lot to do the weather and most importantly Geography. It is the best 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

[Shalon · Rating 4 out of 5]

very nice to read👍

[Rainier · Rating 5 out of 5]

Stormy weather
This book is the longest! Why do we n know that It is shocking! This is a bad book I still have 5 stars! I only learnt about natural disasters and Weather.did you know a thunderstorm usually bring cold front and tornados stormy weather pg.55 and hurricanes have there own scale stormy weather pg. 107

[Mao Mao · Rating 5 out of 5]

I still can't believe that high pressure and low pressure have anything to do with good weather and storms. I think the only thing to do with rain is the water cycle and that's it. But that doesn't explain why hurricanes, tornadoes, and droughts happen and some ice in the sky form snow and others form hail.

[Thames · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is about types of storms, and examples of it in the past.

I liked it because the destruction was AWESOME!!!! Some meteorologists even made wrong guesses and made the death toll even HIGHER!

I don't know why some predictions are completely weird and wrong but some are a bullseye.

[Nocturna Syn · Rating 3 out of 5]

WahnsinnsWissen. Orkanstark, das Wetter! by Anita Ganeri (2002)

[Hannah · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun and entertaining read. A very enjoyable way to learn about this topic.

[Paul · Rating 4 out of 5]

Far better than others, with far fewer inaccuracies. Worth a read.

[Indah Threez Lestari · Rating 3 out of 5]

393 - 2016

[Layla · Rating 4 out of 5]

grappig. je leert veel en het is ook nog eens heel erg grappig

[Thurisya · Rating 5 out of 5]

i think that its really good because it makes us learn more about weather from the history.