Bizarre Beasts
By Anita Ganeri
1996
First Published
3.77
Average Rating
32
Number of Pages
Describes the duck-billed platypus, hammerhead shark, matamata turtle, king vulture, vampire bat, giant anteater, Australian frilled lizard, aye-aye, and mandrill, as well as remarkable plants, insects, and fish
Avg Rating
3.77
Number of Ratings
13
5 STARS
15%
4 STARS
46%
3 STARS
38%
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Author
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.
