Questions and Answers About The Natural World
By Anita Ganeri
1989
First Published
3.64
Average Rating
255
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Young Readers will find vast amount of information in this book, made engrossing and accessible by the question and answer format and the lavish use of realistic illustration. The encyclopedia explores a huge range of animals living in all areas and habitats of the world. These creatures are excitingly described in answers to questions such Which rainforest bats drink blood? How does a hummingbird hover? How high does a flea jump? What do animals drink in the desert? Which fish "walks" on three legs? etc.
Avg Rating
3.64
Number of Ratings
11
5 STARS
18%
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3 STARS
36%
2 STARS
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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.
