Product Description

Read about the frozen turtles falling out of the sky, the man struck by lightning seven times who survived, the weather-watchers flying straight into the eye of a hurricane. Or read the weather safety manual, learn how to build a storm shelter or pick up survival tips on a tornado tour.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #300567 in Books
• Published on: 1999-09-17
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Customer Reviews

This book is full of funny facts,a great read!
This book,Stormy Weather by Anita Ganeri is a fantastic read full of funny but interesting facts.Also the illustrater,Mike Phillips doesn't make the reader bored by drawing terribly plain and altogether boring pictures.The genere of the book is funny facts which is exactly what its about.The book comes to have its title[Stormy Weather]because that's what it's all about,Stormy Weather!The book covers most things about stormy weather from air pressure to people who have actully been inside an of a tornado!!This book hasn't won any awards but with its average star rating on Amzon.co.uk which is four it definitely should have.The author and the illustrator have worked very well together combining there efforts to make one truely fantastic book!The strenghs of this book ar very clear the jokes,the drawings,the funny facts and how the author and the illustrator don't make this book boring.The only weakness of the book has to be that sometimes there are too many facts cramed in to one page or paragraph.This book has strange comparisons with the Horrible Sceince series by Nick Arnold...The other books in the series include Violent Volcnoes,Odious oceans and Raging Rivers...This book is manly set at 10 to 14 year olds,But with its funny facts its a great raed for anyone who's interestid in Stormy Weather.

`Geography has never been such fun before!'
`Does Geography grind you down?
Fed up with miserable maps, rotten rock piles and impossible place names?
Wave goodbye to boring geography lessons as the windswept world of 'Stormy Weather' knocks you off your feet ...........
Gasp! ...at the frozen turtles that fell out of the sky.
Run for your life! ...as an angry tornado rips up houses from the ground.
Marvel!...at the man who was struck by lightning seven times....and survived.
Quake!...as gutsy weather-watchers fly straight into the eye of a hurricane.
And if that is not stormy enough for you....read our weather safety manual and learn how to build your own storm shelter, pick up crucial survival tips on our terrifying tornado tour and discover why wearing wellies in a thunderstorm might just save your life.
It's earth shatteringly exciting!
Geography has never been so horrible!'

160 pages, split over 11 chapters:-

Introduction
Killer storm
Awesome atmosphere
Wild, wet and windy
Rumbling thunder
Terrible twisters
Hair-raising hurricanes
Serious storm-watching
Weathering the storm
Stormy superstars
A stormy future

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

A superb book to make weather fun & interesting!
This is a fantastic book! Forget what anyone else says. It makes everything about weather easy to understand and teaches you a lot you didn't know.

The diagrams and cartoons are great and it is funny too. Anita Ganeri is to be congratulated on producing such a marvellous book!