Stormy Weather

by Anita Ganeri

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Genres: Nonfiction, Science, Geography, Childrens, Humor, Comics

128 pages, Paperback

First published September 17, 1999

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Manybooks · Rating 3 out of 5]

First and foremost and also a very necessary caveat, while the general meteorological information Anita Ganeri provides in Stormy Weather is mostly and solidly factually correct (albeit the lack of sources and no suggestions for further reading is definitely something I find annoying and academically problematic), since Stormy Weather was published in 1999 (read on Open Library, and no, I have not read any of the supposedly updated later editions which I have heard do at least now contain websites to research), Ganeri's text and Mike Phillips' accompanying black and white cartoons will of course not be featuring any hurricanes, tornadoes and the like from the 21st century (and which seem to have become more frequent and also more intense due to global warming). So for example, the destruction in Jamaica by Hurricane Gilbert as it is depicted in Stormy Weather, while this of course should still be approached and considered as a hugely devastating and destructive storm in and for Jamaica, the 2025 devastation wreaked by Hurricane Melissa has obviously been considerably worse than what happened in 1988 with Hurricane Gilbert (and this is bien sûr also not in any way meant to be taken as a criticism, it is simply the nature of the non fiction beast so to speak and something to keep in mind especially if considering Stormy Weather for the intended age group, for young readers from about the age of eight to twelve or so, and that for actual educational purposes, in my opinion, the updated editions of Stormy Weather and in particular the most recent 2019 incarnation should probably be used, although the general details regarding weather systems and storms are absolutely fine in the earlier editions, including this here 1999 first edition of Stormy Weather).

Now with regard to my personal reading enjoyment of Stormy Weather, well, aside from my above mentioned issues with Anita Ganeri not including bibliographical information, I also have three bones of specific textual contention that make me rate Stormy Weather with only a low three star rating. For one, when in Stormy Weather, Ganeri mentions the German Foehn wind, she is unfortunately not entirely correct. For while the Foehn is indeed a strong and generally warm German wind, it is in fact the German equivalent of the North American Chinook, and it does as such not blow everywhere in Germany, but only in Southern Germany (because of the Alps), in Baden-Würtemberg and in Bayern (Bavaria), so that Anita Ganeri's words are kind of misleading since she in Stormy Weather seems to indicate that the Foehn blows everywhere in Germany and which is simply not true (and that just like with the Chinook, the Foehn causes fast temperature changes and that both winds indeed cause or at least can cause migraines and feelings of general physical malaise). For two, I have found the humour Ganeri uses in Stormy Weather crass, artificial, often leaving me feeling uncomfortable when this is juxtaposed with stories of weather and storm related devastation (and not to mention that the constant denigrations of geography teachers and of teachers in general makes me rather cringe). For three, while Mike Phillips' cartoons for Stormy Weather are aesthetically adept, personally speaking, I have found them much too silly for my tastes and also too visually unorganised and often even somewhat confusing (and that I would definitely prefer colour illustrations and have some photographs be included as well). And therefore, while Stormy Weather is definitely nicely educational, I am indeed with regard to text and images a bit bah humbug, that in particular that what Anita Ganeri thinks is humorous and is meant to lighten Stormy Weather for the most part does not really work for me all that well, if at all (and that my three star rating for Stormy Weather is indeed and admittedly pretty generous).

[Emma · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's ok, but not great.

[Sophie Crane · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fed up with miserable maps, rotten rock piles and impossible place names?
Wave goodbye to boring geography lessons as the windswept world of 'Stormy Weather' knocks you off your feet ...........
Gasp! ...at the frozen turtles that fell out of the sky.
Run for your life! ...as an angry tornado rips up houses from the ground.
Marvel!...at the man who was struck by lightning seven times....and survived.
Quake!...as gutsy weather-watchers fly straight into the eye of a hurricane.
And if that is not stormy enough for you....read our weather safety manual and learn how to build your own storm shelter, pick up crucial survival tips on our terrifying tornado tour and discover why wearing wellies in a thunderstorm might just save your life.
It's earth shatteringly exciting!
Geography has never been so horrible!

[Maleigha · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a wonderful, detailed guideline for a unit over weather. Starting off with practical questions such as, “what’s the weather like today” and later diving in to different aspects of weather such as snow, rainbows, lightning, and rain. The book contains a wider range of sentences structure and vocabulary; therefore it is challenging for the students and keeps them learning. You may use it for standard S4E3 and S4E4

[Pedro Flores · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best way to learn about the weather and climate conditions with lots of fun. Really educational for kids. Some stories are a bit outdated. Anyway it is worth it!

[Nicola · Rating 5 out of 5]

Enjoyable and educational read learnt a few bits that I didn't know about too.

[Gyekye Tanoh · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was one of my favorite books cuz it has a lot to do the weather and most importantly Geography. It is the best 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

[Shalon · Rating 4 out of 5]

very nice to read👍

[Rainier · Rating 5 out of 5]

Stormy weather
This book is the longest! Why do we n know that It is shocking! This is a bad book I still have 5 stars! I only learnt about natural disasters and Weather.did you know a thunderstorm usually bring cold front and tornados stormy weather pg.55 and hurricanes have there own scale stormy weather pg. 107

[Mao Mao · Rating 5 out of 5]

I still can't believe that high pressure and low pressure have anything to do with good weather and storms. I think the only thing to do with rain is the water cycle and that's it. But that doesn't explain why hurricanes, tornadoes, and droughts happen and some ice in the sky form snow and others form hail.

[Thames · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is about types of storms, and examples of it in the past.

I liked it because the destruction was AWESOME!!!! Some meteorologists even made wrong guesses and made the death toll even HIGHER!

I don't know why some predictions are completely weird and wrong but some are a bullseye.

[Nocturna Syn · Rating 3 out of 5]

WahnsinnsWissen. Orkanstark, das Wetter! by Anita Ganeri (2002)

[Hannah · Rating 3 out of 5]

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

[Paul · Rating 4 out of 5]

Far better than others, with far fewer inaccuracies. Worth a read.

[Indah Threez Lestari · Rating 3 out of 5]

393 - 2016

[Layla · Rating 4 out of 5]

grappig. je leert veel en het is ook nog eens heel erg grappig

[Thurisya · Rating 5 out of 5]

i think that its really good because it makes us learn more about weather from the history.