Wild Animals Book by Anita Ganeri (Farsi)

Anita Ganeri

Anita Ganeri (born 1961) is an Indian author of the award-winning series Horrible Geography and many other non-fiction books for children. Ganeri was born in Calcutta, India and her family emigrated to England when she was a baby. She boarded at Stamford High School, and graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in French/German and Indian Studies. Ganeri worked in publishing for several years – first as a foreign rights manager for Walker, and later as an editor at Usborne – before becoming a freelance writer. Her first published book was a Ladybird book on ‘how things work’. In total, she has written over 600 non-fiction books, at a rate of 15-20 per year. Her work on the Horrible Geography series led to her becoming a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.