Rivers, Ponds and Lakes

by Anita Ganeri, Nicola Barber

Describes how modern life is affecting ponds, rivers, and lakes globally and discusses possible ways of saving the endangered species in these waterways

44 pages, Hardcover

First published July 31, 1992

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.