Exploration Into India [Library Binding]

Chelsea House Publications (Author), Anita Ganeri (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 9 and up | Series: Exploration Into...

This book is part of an eight book series A World of Food, which explores the cuisine's of different countries around the world, with their distinctive ingredients, flavours and recipes.

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Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 4-6-In a brief introduction, Ganeri and Wright cover the nation's flag, languages, monetary system, and major attractions, allotting one paragraph per topic. Lifestyles, putting on a sari, sports and leisure, religions, festivals, transportation, arts and crafts, and history are all treated on double-page spreads. The section on food and drink is followed by a recipe for potato and cauliflower curry. Students wanting a book for reports will find scant information here. However, they will find directions on how to tie-dye a scarf, how to play a game similar to "Concentration," and how to make a shadow-puppet theater. Unremarkable full-color cartoons and small photographs illustrate the text. This title supplements other more standard works such as Sylvia McNair's India (Childrens, 1990), Prodeepta Das's India (Watts, 1990), and India in Pictures (Lerner, 1989).
Blair Christolon, Prince William Library, Manassas, VA
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Anita Ganeri was born in India, read languages at Cambridge University and completed an MA in Indian Studies before starting a career in children's books as Foreign Rights Manager at Walker. After then moving to Usborne Publishing as a writer and editor, she became a full-time freelance children's author and is the respected author of a large variety of books. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Library Binding: 48 pages
• Publisher: Chelsea House Publications (October 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0791060225
• ISBN-13: 978-0791060223
• Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 8.7 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,515,310 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a great hands-on cultural geography book, July 12, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: India (Country Topics for Crafts Projects) (Library Binding)

This is a great book for teaching units on India to gradeschool age kids. The format is simple and interesting. It applies itself well to kids and offers hand-on projects to make the country more real to children. My daughter and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Designed specifically for students in grades 4 through 8, April 22, 2010

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This review is from: India (A World of Food) (Hardcover)

Every now and then along comes "A World of Food", an informed and informative series of 'how to' books for kids that simply stands out from the crowd. Clara House Books (an imprint of The Oliver Press) has newly published a truly outstanding eight volume series of social studies titles designed specifically for students in grades 4 through 8. Each one of these sturdily bound, 32-page, profusely illustrated compendiums addresses the food, religion, landscape, climate, farming, crops, holidays, festivals, culture, etiquette, and global influences of a particular country, along with three distinctively characteristic recipes. Enhanced with the inclusion of foreign word meanings, country and world maps, glossaries, indexes, and thematically appropriate web sites, the individual titles comprising this impressive series includes The Caribbean; China; France; India; Italy; Lebanon; Mexico; and Nigeria. Each of these thoroughly up-to-date and thoroughly 'kid friendly' titles is appropriate and highly recommended as a home-schooling curriculum supplement, as well as strongly advised for both school and community library reference collections for young readers.