Wild Islands

by Anita Ganeri, Mike Phillips (Illustrator)

This is geography with the gritty bits left in! Does geography grind you down? Fed up with miserable maps, rotten rock piles and crazy contour lines? Wave goodbye to boring geography lessons as you are cast away on the far-flung shores of 'Wild Islands'...Marvel! as a brand-new island pops up from the sea. Gasp! at the hot-tempered island that blew its top. Choke! on the smell of an island dragon's foul breath. And if that's not wild enough for you...discover where to find coconuts with magical powers, try to crack the case of the missing island and read the remarkable story of a real life Robinson Crusoe. It's earth-shatteringly exciting! Geography has never been so horrible!

Genres: Nonfiction, Science, Childrens, Geography

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

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

[Jenny Webb · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rating and reviewing from the perspective of the intended audience (my 9 year old son), this was a smash hit. He loved the cheeky humor, the interesting facts, and the layout, which features chunks of texts broken up visually with cartoon graphic frames, call outs, etc.

He’s a picky reader, and I was thrilled this hit the sweet spot for him. For context, his favorite science books have been the Science Comics series, and his favorite fiction series is Dogman. This book wasn’t as graphic heavy as the other two, but had enough to help it feel familiar/approachable for him.

From what the parent perspective, the information was accurate, scientifically informed, and at times a bit repetitive in terms of its silliness. But that’s what my boy loved. This made a good before bed read aloud.

[Sophie Crane · Rating 5 out of 5]

'Does Geography grind you down?
Fed up with miserable maps, rotten rock piles and crazy contour lines?
Wave goodbye to boring geography lessons as you are cast away on the far-flung shores of `Wild Islands' ......
Marvel! ...as a brand-new island pops up form the sea
Gasp! ...at the hot-tempered island that blew its top.
Choke! ...on the smell of an island dragon`s foul breath.
And if that is not wild enough for you....discover where to find coconuts with magical powers, try to crack the case of the missing island and read the remarkable story of a real-life Robinson Crusoe.
It's earth shatteringly exciting!
Geography has never been so horrible!'

126 pages, split over chapters:-

1. Introduction
2. Castaway!
3. Incredible islands
4. Flaming islands
5. Island wildlife
6. Wild island living
7. Island hopping
8. Islands in danger

Written with the typical humour of this series of books, in a variety of fonts, interspersed with numerous black and white illustrations/cartoons.

[Vignesh Balaji · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was an absolute joy to read and learn about Earth's wild islands.

Anita Ganeri's writing is easy to read and filled with witty jokes and puns. The information is explained simply; not tedious and boring to read unlike school textbooks.

The illustrations are significantly helpful and beautifully well done. They are neat and also informative.

Hope to read more of Anita Ganeri in the future. Highly recommend!

[Il_mare_ghiacciato · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ottimo testo per bambini curiosi. Per la metà è composto da disegni o fumetti, quindi invoglia alla lettura. Consigliato ai fan di Robinson Crusoe.

[Lin Huynh · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really love this book <3

[Alex]

Cool I am reading it

[Indah Threez Lestari · Rating 3 out of 5]

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