Award-winning author Anita Ganeri has written over 500 books for children including the best-selling HORRIBLE GEOGRAPHY series. Anita was born in India but moved to England when she was very young. After university, she spent many years working for publishers both as an editor and a foreign rights manager. Anita now lives in Yorkshire, with her husband, children and rescued greyhounds.
Interest Age:
10
Category:
Literacy
Strand:
Hi Lo Reader
Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level The sandy Arabian Desert stretches for hundreds of kilometres in every direction. It may seem hard to believe that anything can live in this hot, dry land, but many different living things call it home. Find out about the amazing plants, animals, and people who live in this beautiful landscape. Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically. Text type - An information book. The book is organised into short chapters to help children practise the skills of locating and identifying important information. Ideas for reading at the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities. Curriculum links: geography, science.