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Anita Ganeri illustrated by Mike Phillips
Horrible Geography Handbook: Wild Animals: in Earth Shattering Colour
Scholastic (96 pages) 9781407103389
While this is more natural life than geography, it is worldwide in coverage. Chapter headings like 'A Short Shark Shock' and 'Crunch Time for Crocs' make the priorities clear. 'Crocs', for example, starts off with the variations in those from the Nile, the saltwater varieties, and the Pacific and American alligators, and goes on to true or false facts, attacks, hunting and hints on survival, just in case.
The 'Horribles'
The various series all with 'Horrible' in the title are incredibly popular paperback books crowded with jokey drawings and packed with information always giving the nasty, gory, disastrous or cruelly unfortunate prominence. The 'Horrible Histories' started it all and seem to go on and on finding new punning titles and themes, but all these books contain a great deal of information presented in an obviously successful, attractive format. New for 2008 are some 96-page variants named 'Handbooks' with wipeable bendy plastic covers and in full colour.
Other titles in the 'Horribles' series:
Horrible Science Handbooks: Beastly Body Science
Horrible Histories Handbooks: The Horrible History of the World: in Blood-Curdling Colour
Horrible Histories Handbooks: Villains!
Horrible Geography: The Horrible Geography of the World
Anita Ganeri illustrated by Mike Phillips
Horrible Geography: The Horrible Geography of the World
Scholastic (96 pages) 9780439977180
This is a larger format, heavier, full-colour hardback book with chapter headings often related to previous individual paperbacks: 'Violent Volcanoes', 'Odious Oceans', and so on. Every continent, major regional landmass types, larger cities, and exploration and discovery are all featured in a marvel of selection and condensation. The main wildlife and individual indigenous peoples are also incorporated into each section. This is an awesome mass of well organised but still entertaining stuff, and even more facts creep into the 'Teacher Teaser' boxed paragraphs with out-of-the-way knowledge to show off.
The 'Horribles'
The various series all with 'Horrible' in the title are incredibly popular paperback books crowded with jokey drawings and packed with information always giving the nasty, gory, disastrous or cruelly unfortunate prominence. The 'Horrible Histories' started it all and seem to go on and on finding new punning titles and themes, but all these books contain a great deal of information presented in an obviously successful, attractive format. New for 2008 are some 96-page variants named 'Handbooks' with wipeable bendy plastic covers and in full colour.
Other titles in the 'Horribles' series:
Horrible Science Handbooks: Beastly Body Science
Horrible Histories Handbooks: The Horrible History of the World: in Blood-Curdling Colour
Horrible Histories Handbooks: Villains!
Horrible Geography Handbooks: Wild Animals: in Earth-Shattering Colour
