
Anita Ganeri
Author · 72 books
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.
Series
Books

Capybara
2010

Wild Animals
2008

Amazing Expeditions
Journeys That Changed The World
2019

How to Live Like a Roman Gladiator
2015

Bizarre Beasts
1996

Children's World History Encyclopedia
2011

Earth Shattering Earthquakes
2000

Como Seria Sua Vida na Roma Antiga?
1995

Scorpion
2011

Around the World
A Colorful Atlas for Kids
2015

Lifesize
Rainforest: See Rainforest Creatures at Their Actual Size
2014

The Story of Christmas
1995

The Tipitaka and Buddhism
2003

Out of the Ark
Stories from the World's Religions
1995

Wild Islands
2004

Buddhist Stories
2001

Earth-shattering Earthquakes AND Violent Volcanoes
2006

Wild Wild World
2010

Chinese Myths and Legends
2013

How to Live Like a Stone-Age Hunter
2015

The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
1996
France and the French
1992

Wicked Weather
2008

Mesoamerican Myth
2000

The Sea Is Salty
1994

Amazing Questions & Answers
2001

Heroes of History
2015

Fennec Fox
2011

All Kinds of Beliefs
2020

Bloomin' Rainforests
2001

I Wonder Why Camels Have Humps
And Other Questions About Animals
1993

Horrible Geography of The World
2007

The Explorers' Handbook
2009

Hindu Stories
2003

Violent Volcanoes
1999

Intrepid Explorers
2003

Colorful Creatures
2016

Questions and Answers About The Natural World
1989

Norse Myths and Legends
2013

Questions and Feelings About Adoption
2019

My Pop-up World Atlas
2012

Monster Lakes
2008

Cracking Coasts
2006

Why in the World
Why is there Pollution?
2024

Krishna Steals the Butter and Other Stories
2007

Sikh Stories
2003

Lifesize
Ocean: See Ocean Creatures at their Actual Size
2013

Encyclopedia of World History
2003

LAST 1000 YEARS, THE, 1,000 Years Ago to the Present Day
1999

From Seed to Apple
2006

Forest Fighter
The Story of Chico Mendes
2022

DK First Atlas
2004

Volcanoes and Earthquakes
2019

Pharoahs & Mummies
1996

World History Encyclopedia
1998

Earth and Space
2001

Poison Dart Frog
2010

Eruption!
The Story of Volcanoes
2001

Perishing Poles
2002

Desperate Deserts
2000

Freaky Peaks
2001

How to Live Like a Viking Warrior
2015

The Story of Christopher Columbus
2001

From Egg to Spider
2005

Religions Explained
1997

Creatures That Glow
1995

The Wind Blows and Other Questions About Our Planet
1994

Facts and Lists
1987

Planet in Peril
2008

Star Stories
Constellation Tales From Around the World
2018

Islamic Stories
2003

Stormy Weather
1999