Raging Rivers

by Mike Phillips Anita Ganeri

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Genres: Nonfiction, Geography, Science, Childrens, Humor

156 pages, Paperback

First published September 14, 2001

Reviews

[Manybooks · Rating 3 out of 5]

The general information Anita Ganeri provides in Raging Rivers (and I have been reading the 2015 edition on Open Library), this is, this seems to be (from what I personally have learned from my own non fiction reading pursuits and from what I was taught regarding water, the water cycle, pollution and of course the rivers of the book title both at school and equally so when I took a first year geography course at university) decently factually correct (but sometimes indeed a trifle more history and culture themed than geographic or geological, although I do appreciatively find this somewhat less the case with Raging Rivers than I encountered with Desperate Deserts and with Stormy Weather) and textually speaking generally very nicely suitable as well as engaging and entertainingly enlightening for readers from about the age of eight or so onwards. Bu yes, the lack of sources and no suggestions for further reading in Raging Rivers and in all of the Horrible Geography books is definitely something I do find pretty hugely annoying, I do indeed consider this frustratingly academically problematic, and as such also pretty massively not really recommending using Raging Rivers for any kind of supplemental research purposes (albeit I also more than understand and realise that the intended audience, that those same eight to likely eleven or twelve year olds mentioned above would probably not at all care that Ganeri does not provide any sources in her Horrible Geography books, even if this quite bothers and annoys me as an older and academically inclined adult reader). But yes, the newer editions do now list websites, which is good, but I for one want both book and online titles.

However (and yes, this is also a pretty humongous however for me), even though I like and also majorly appreciate the solid facts Anita Ganeri provides in Raging Rivers, well, aside from my issues and my frustrations with Ganeri not including any bibliographical information whatsoever, I also have two further bones of textual contention which cause me to rate Raging Rivers with only a three star rating, a rather high three stars to be sure, but not yet in any way sufficient for me to even remotely consider four stars. For one, first and foremost, I have found the humour Anita Ganeri uses in Raging Rivers for the most part annoyingly crass, too artificial, often actually leaving me feeling majorly uncomfortable when this tongue-in-cheek textuality is juxtaposed with stories of river related devastation, horror, disease and the like (not to mention that Ganeri's petty much constant denigrations of geography teachers and of teachers in general throughout Raging Rivers truly does makes me rather cringe and be filled with more than a bit of anger). And for two, while Mike Phillips' black and white cartoons for Raging Rivers are adept, personally speaking, I have found them much too silly and caricature-like for my personal aesthetic tastes and also too visually unorganised and occasionally even a bit annoyingly confusing (and that I also would definitely prefer colour illustrations and some both archival and current river themed photographs to be included in Raging Rivers).

Thus while Raging Rivers is definitely nicely educational and engagingly penned, I am indeed with regard to text and images a bit bah humbug and that especially what the author, what Anita Ganeri thinks is humorous and is meant to lighten Raging Rivers for the most part just does not really work all that well for me (and actually, and truthfully not at all). But yes, for the right kind of audience and in particular for boys, the exaggerated humour and Phillips' parodistic artwork for Raging Rivers will or should probably be a huge hit (even if this has not been the case for me with Raging Rivers and indeed with all of the Horrible Geography books I have encountered and read thus far on Open Library, in particular for adult me of course but also to be honest, to be entirely truthful here, more than somewhat, more than a trifle for my inner child as well).

[Sophie Crane · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent resource to dip into as a teacher - very accessible for students and well illustrated as well as cleverly written.

[Indah Threez Lestari · Rating 3 out of 5]

43 - 2017

[Huda.H · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is about geography, more in depth - rivers. Lits filled with a bunch of facts and senerarios. The aim of this book is to make geography fun fkr kids in a comical way. I personally do not like tgis book becuase it gets me really confused and it doesn't have a story line becuase, like i said, its just a lot of different senerarios. Its not the genre i would usually read, and i think that this book was trying to be educational but i did not enjoy it. Thats is why i rate this book a two out of ten. However if u like geography this could be a perfect bokk for you.

[Dion Yulianto · Rating 3 out of 5]

Banyak fakta menarik tentang sungai dan perairan disajikan dengan gaya bahasa yang menghibur, ditambah ilustrasi yang tidak kalah lucu.

- siput bergerak lebih cepat ketimbang kecepatan air merembes di dalam tanah
- sejarah pencarian sumber mata air sungai Nil
- penjelajahan melintasi benua Amerika lewat sungai
- seperti sungainya yang besar, segala sesuatu yg hidup di sungai Amazon juga tidak kalah raksasanya.
- terpanjang: sungai Nil, terbesar: sungai Amazon.
- dll

[Blue Elephant · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was all right

[Mrs Reddy Mallender-Katzy · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is the fourth book ive read in the Horrible series and i have decided that i really dont actually like these books, i dislike the laoyout, the pictures and theyre just not for me ...

[Willow · Rating 4 out of 5]

We both learned a lot about rivers. They are a great geography supplement so far and my daughter looks forward to reading them.

[Atharv Bagga · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great read

[chloe · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Horrible History and Horrible Geography series were my childhood favorites.
I saw this book on the "New Arrivals" shelf in the school library and since no one can simply get enough of Horrible Geography, I borrowed it and boy, was it good.
If you want a book with detailed illustrations and punny dialogues, this one's for you (plus bonus, you get to learn a lot of facts!).

[Akshay · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is pretty much my FAVORITE non fiction book I have ever read. It is really education, and has the 'pizzaz' to make it all funny. Thanks to it being funny, I know lots of stuff, like how the grand canyon was formed (and as the title of the book suggests, it was made by Raging Rivers :D ). If you want to be the best in liquid geography, this should be your first stop.

[Mao Mao · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book tells about the river's age: young river, middle age, and old age. A young river flows very fast, and often plunges down a waterfall into middle age. It often has curving meanders, valleys, and ox-bow lakes. It enters old age peacefully and flows into the ocean.

[Hannah · Rating 2 out of 5]

A fun and entertaining read. A very enjoyable way to learn about this topic.

[Mark Louie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Still funny. Will collect other books too. Love reading these kinds.

[Paul · Rating 2 out of 5]

The 'Raging River Factfiles' are good, and the odd weird snippet is interesting, but the author could do with including more keywords.

[Tamaki · Rating 4 out of 5]

I learned some water knowledges from this book in an interesting way.