Perishing Poles

by Anita Ganeri, Mike Phillips (Illustrator)

"Perishing Poles" takes the young reader on a perilous voyage to the polar regions. Along the way they will encounter savage snowstorms, enormous icebergs, and hungry polar bears. With a brand-new cover design, text updates and an added extra-horrible index, it's geography with even more gritty bits left in.

Genres: Nonfiction, Science, Geography, Childrens, Humor

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

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

[Mia]

my therapist recommended that i should reread my favourite childhood books as a coping mechanism: part one

honestly, this wasn't that bad from what i'd remembered of it. the jokes are pretty cheesy and awful ('geography lessons. snow laughing matter, are they?') but it's genuinely informative with pretty cool illustrations. for me, this book also singlehandedly set off a childhood fixation on polar explorers like captain scott, douglas mawson and ernest shackleton, so i do still look upon it somewhat fondly.

[Adrija · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderfully explained

[Molly Clifford · Rating 4 out of 5]

i'm an adult but i still found this very informative!

[Caleb Meyers · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interestingly written, but contains lots of evolution and climate change rubbish, especially as the conclusions for many of the books.

[Katerina Koslover · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like Perishing Poles because it is very funny and explains a lot about the mysterious poles. My favorite chapter is Perishing Polar People, since it explains how Inuit people lived.

[Courtney Joy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great read, illustrative fun content.The chapter on Perishing pole people are quite lovely to read about to littles.

[Tan Jun Yu · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a fact book written by Anita Ganeri. It tells us about the North pole, the first person who reached the South Pole, and what is is to be like when we are on ice, and the different adventures on ice (not Ice Age). Hmm, quite interesting...

[Henry · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great science book for children. I remember hating science at school and was so glad when I stopped studying it at age 16. If science lessons were more like this series, I think I would have been a lot more interested.

[Indah Threez Lestari · Rating 4 out of 5]

873 - 2016

[Tamaki · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading this book in a kind of fun.

[Hannah · Rating 3 out of 5]

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