Earth-shattering Earthquakes AND Violent Volcanoes

by Anita Ganeri

Geography with twice the gritty bits! "Violent Volcanoes" is as hot as it gets. Read the diaries of volcano survivors and get cluedup with the spotter's guide to eruptions. "Earth-Shattering Earthquakes" reveals how to stay alive if an earthquake strikes and find out if you've got what it takes to become an earthquake expert. Geography has never been so horrible!

Genres: Geography, Science, Childrens

256 pages, Paperback

First published August 7, 2006

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

[Crystal · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting and funny