Journey Through: India

Description

Journey Through India offers a look at the geography, landscape, culture and people of India. From the bustling cities of New Delhi and Mumbai through to the tranquil sights of Darjeeling and the Taj Mahal. You'll experience a summer monsoon, visit deserts, beautiful beaches. You'll also see the vast Ganges River, extraordinary temples and tropical forests and find out what it is like to live in this colourful and vibrant part of Asia. Journey Through offers young readers the chance to take a trip through exciting world countries using different modes of transport, from train and car to bicycle and private jet. Along the way the traveller visits highlighted places both well known and less known, and learns lots of exciting facts about history, language, culture and much more.

Anita Ganeri is an award-winning author of children's information books. She has been a writer for 20 years, after working in-house for Usborne Publishing and Walker Books. Among her many titles are the best-selling 'Horrible Geography' series for Scholastic Children's Books which won the Blue Peter Book Award for the Best Book with Facts in 2009 and the Tivy Education Medal from the Royal Scottish Geographical Society for an outstanding contribution to geographical education. Anita lives in northern England with her husband, children, dogs and cat.

A colourful country is done justice to by a colourful book ... From the bustling cities of New Delhi and Mumbai, through to the tranquil sights of Darjeeling and the Taj Mahal, children will be taken on a journey o discovery * Parents In Touch * Aims to provide pupils with a sense of what it might be like to travel to a country and discover important aspects of that country's human and physical geography * School Librarian *