Cracking Coasts

by Anita Ganeri, Mike Phillips (Illustrator)

Horrible Geography Cracking Coasts [Paperback] Anita Ganeri and Mike Phillips

Genres: Nonfiction, Geography, Science, Childrens

128 pages, Paperback

First published May 22, 2006

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

[Billy Ren · Rating 4 out of 5]

For this book, I think it's extremely important and exciting for students at 12 years old to read because this book contains a lot of surprisingly cool geographic features like the 10 longest coasts worldwide for example. Also, the book told the reader a lot of historical events that happened to some famous explorers while they were discovering these "cracking coasts." What I mean by cracking coasts is that these coasts are not physically cracking. It's just one of the ways that I think the author is trying to tell that these coasts are extraordinarily amazing by using a word that might attract us according to my own opinion. My thoughts after reading this book are that before, I never knew that Australia had a long coastline, but now I know it. Before, I didn't know a lot of explorers in history that went exploring just for these coasts. Now I also know more explorers and what they are doing through the researches. So through this book, I got more knowledge on the history of these coasts what happened to them, who discovered them, and even why they would do research on that coast. So, overall, I like this book mainly because it expands my knowledge and makes me think out the box sometimes.

[Sophie Crane · Rating 5 out of 5]

Geography with the gritty bits left in!

Wave goodbye to boring geography lessons as you clamber up some 'Cracking Coasts' ...........

Marvel! ...at the ginormous Giant's Causeway.
Scream! ....as you surf an awesome reef breaker.
Shiver!....with fear as you take a trip to the spooky Skeleton Coast.
And if that is not cracking enough for you....visit an eerie lighthouse where the light suddenly went out and go sailing with....a snail.
It's earth-shatteringly exciting!

Geography has never been so horrible!'

126 pages, split over chapters:

1. Introduction
2. Sailing too close to the coast
3. Crooked coastlines
4. Shifting shores
5. Cracking coastal wildlife
6. Living on the edge
7. Coasting along
8. Crumbling coasts

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

[Eowynselixure_book Love · Rating 4 out of 5]

I always read a Horrible History around my birthday and holiday so this year I decided to read a Horrible Geography and what an apt one it was!

In a lighthearted way the book assumes it's little reader is on holiday. It talks about how many people holiday on the coast every year and how many live by the coast. It explains the different ways in which coast lines are made and shaped, the features like headlands, cliffs, arches and stacks. The animals that live in this ever changing environmemt and the plants. The livings people make on the cost and the sports people partake in.

But really interestingly it discusses at some length the Tunami of 26th December 2004. I remember it of course but I had no idea of the damage it caused and how many coastlies it hit and ravaged and I found the in depth look at it really informative.

It also discusses the disappearance of the lighthouse keepers on the Flannan Islands in Scotland in 1900 and different gives us a summary of several famouse explorers.

Overall it was a quick and very informative read and I really enjoyed. I love the way these books make pretty boring subjects really facinating and I plan to read more of Horrible Histories and Terry Deary books this year as I have amassed a lot of them.

[Abi Pellinor · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun little book about coastal environments. It was pretty odd reading this as I read many others in the horrible geography series as a child, and I'm currently doing a Geography degree which covers many of the issues in this book. It is rather old and a lot of the information could be updated (such as what they say about mangroves for example) but still a cute little book that may help get someone younger a little more interested in geography!

[Nguyễn Đại · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hay.... Cách trình bày dễ hiểu , lôi cuốn

[Mao Mao · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love reading about the ocean disasters. Tsunamis are set up by earth-shattering earthquakes, which I also read about in another book of this series. Once a great earthquake in the middle of the Indian Ocean sent a tsunami, it crashed down 6 hours later on the African Coast. But at that time, everyone knew that a tsunami was coming, so they climbed to higher ground. The country closest to the quake center, Aceh, felt the deadliest wave.

[slowmokim · Rating 3 out of 5]

Series này mình tải về chung với bộ sách Horrible Histories, cũng 3 năm rồi nhanh thật.
Động lực để tìm đọc nó chắc là do đang xem One Piece :))))))
Thấy cũng bơi ra khơi, làm hải tặc hải quân khám phá đại dương đồ đó :)))))))

Sách dành cho các bạn nhỏ nên trình bày ngắn gọn, dễ hiểu, minh hoạ vui nhộn về Địa lý, cụ thể là những khái niệm căn bản về bờ biển trên thế giới.
Nói chung cái series truyện tranh này vừa hài mà vừa bổ ích, rcm cho các cháu 12t trở lên khám phá mở mang kiến thức

[Paul · Rating 2 out of 5]

Unfortunately, nowhere nearly as good as the 'Horrible Histories' series, 'Cracking Coasts' best bits include Ganeri's portrayal of the Indian Ocean tsunami (2004) and coastal defences.

[Indah Threez Lestari · Rating 3 out of 5]

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