Series:

Horrible Geography

1 primary work • 30 total works

Cover of Horrible Geography: Freaky Peaks
Freaky Peaks takes you on a thrilling mountain tour from Everest to Kilimanjaro. Read about the intrepid explorers who conquered the world's highest mountains and try to spot the mysterious Yeti. Discover how mountains are formed and follow a giant glacier as it carves out a path down a mountain. It's earth-shatteringly exciting!

Cover of Horrible Geography: Monster Lakes
There's more to lakes than meets the eye, as Monster Lakes reveals...In tried and tested Horrible Geography fashion the reader is taken through the physical geography of the different ways lake form (whether it's from volcanos, plate movement, glaciers or the classic 'oxbow' lakes) and where they occur, to chapters on unique lake wildlife, like flamingoes who are specially adapted to feed on algae. Turning to the human side of things, the book takes a look at lake explorers and their adventures, like Speke, whotumbled across Lake Victoria while looking for the Nile and modern adventurers - many of whom are after lake monsters like Nessie using high-tech sonar equipment. Plus of course there's info about why lakes are in danger - either of being drained dry for drinking water, or polluted by sewage and industrial waste, and what we can do to save them.

Cover of Horrible Geography: Freaky Peaks/Perishing Poles
Venture to the chilly poles and scale some heady heights as these two exciting "Horrible Geography" titles are brought together in the next bind-up in the "Horrible Geography" series.

Cover of Horrible Geography: Planet in Peril
This is the next title in the color "Horrible Geography Handbooks" series. From climate change to carbon footprints "How to Save the Planet" is a horribly useful guide to the environmental issues that children are most concerned about and offers oodles of ideas of things readers can do to help to save the planet.

Cover of Bloomin' Rainforests Jigsaw Book
From tiny tree frogs to towering tropical trees, this new jigsaw book contains six fantastically detailed jigsaw spreads about the World's rainforests, plus loads of essential facts hidden under the puzzle pieces.

Cover of Horrible Geography: Raging Rivers
Geography with the gritty bits left in! Does geography grind you down? Fed up with miserable maps, rotten rock piles and stultifying statistics? Wave goodbye to boring geography lessons as you venture into the surging world of 'Raging Rivers'. Scream as you peer over the edge of a roaring waterfall. Gasp at the amazing Grand Canyon - gorged out by an old river. Run for your life when you come face to face with a peckish piranha. Tremble when you go white-water rafting through hair-raising rapids. And if that's not outrageous enough for you ... join our heroic hydrologists on a turbulent river tour from ice cap to ocean, read the secret diary of a brave river explorer, and get to know your watery wildlife with our spotter's guide. It's earth-shatteringly exciting! Geography has never been so horrible!

Cover of Horrible Geography: Raging Rivers/Odious Oceans
Geography with twice the gritty bits! Dive into the murky waters and. * Scream! as you peer over the edge of a roaring waterfall. * Defy death! by tucking into a poisonous pufferfish . and surviving. * Tremble! when you go white-water rafting through hair-raising rapids. Raging Rivers takes you on a turbulent river tour from ice cap to ocean. PLUS read the secret diary of a brave river explorer and get to know your watery wildlife with our spotter's guide. Odious Oceans leads you down to the seabed, where you can uncover the dreadful details of the Titanic's last day. Then discover if you're nautical enough to join the Navy. Geography has never been so horrible!

Cover of Horrible Geography: Violent Volcanoes/Earth-Shattering
Geography with twice the gritty bits! Venture into the realms of a fiery, unstable world and...-Run for your life! as a earthquake sends the sea surging towards you in a gigantic wave. -Tremble! before geysers that could boil you alive. -Marvel! at red-hot volcanic rocks the size of cars. Violent Volcanoes is as hot as it gets. Read the diaries of volcano survivors, get clued-up with the spotter's guide to eruptions and plan a holiday with our volcano vacation guide. Earth-Shattering Earthquakes reveals how to stay alive in an earthquake strikes. Plus find out if you've got what it takes to become an earthquake expert.

Cover of Wicked World Tour

Wicked World Tour

by Anita Ganeri

Published 1 October 2015
 


Geography with the gritty bits left in!

Inside you'll find out:





what happens when a volcano turns nasty

whether you'd survive at the frozen poles

how a frog can help you get a drink in the desert



 

Hold on tight as you embark on a whistle-stop trip around
the globe, taking in everything from the perishing poles to
desperate deserts, stormy weather to earth-shattering earthquakes.






Crammed full of far-out facts

illustrated in full-colour on every page



 

it's the ultimate Horrible Geography guide
to the planet. Geography has never been so horrible!

Cover of Awesome Atlas Jigsaw Book

Awesome Atlas Jigsaw Book

by Anita Ganeri

Published 6 April 2009
Puzzle over these six fun-packed 49-piece jigsaws. With a fantastic flags feature, find the odd-one-out game, and essential Earth facts hidden under the jigsaws, the Awesome Atlas is out of this world!