Facts and Lists : Earth, Countries, Weather, Space

by Anita Ganeri

-- Colorful picture books filled with fascinating facts and amazing records and data-- Colorful illustrations and cartoons

Genres: Reference

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1987

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]

This is a really useful book for adults as well as for kids. Stuffed full of facts and figures and handy for quizzes.

[Bo Manson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Facts and lists. Yes, this book is not just full, it’s jam-packed with facts and lists with simple description for young readers. Full of hilarious cartoon also helps the reader to enjoy this plenteous and colorful facts and lists. This book is divided into sections covering earth, countries, weather, space, animal, bird and oceans facts and lists. Aside from its simplicity while presenting facts, kids can expect to spend some times to a page for it was divided to three columns. It’s as if even if kids couldn’t read this entire 300-ish books in one go, a page a day is more than enough. As a kid, I read this book several times and still enjoy the cartoons that spread across the entire book. As an adult, I’d give this book to my kid(s) to read or not. Ok, under one condition, I’m the one who’s going to read to them.

[Jennifer]

Fun to read. I love rereading this book every few years. Some of the information is outdated now but the lists and facts stay with you