The Ramayana and Hinduism

Sacred Texts

by Anita Ganeri

Hindus are followers of a religion called Hinduism. Unlike many other religions, Hinduism does not have a single holy book. Many different texts are considered sacred, including the Vedas and Upanishads, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, and the Puranas.

32 pages, Hardcover

First published July 4, 2003

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

[Kirttimukha TheCat · Rating 5 out of 5]

easy to understand and really informative. There's actually a lot more information in this book than you would expect for something so small.