Read all about rivers and streams. Find out how ox-bow lakes, levees and deltas form, which waterfall is 979 metres tall and what the world's longest river is. This title looks at the physical features of a river, how people use rivers and streams, e.g. industry, transport, leisure, power and irrigation and at the animals that live in rivers. This work introduces basic geographical vocabulary.

 

This book is part of a book series called Geography Starts Here .

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by Hachette Children's Group .

Angela Royston has written and edited many books for children about science and nature. Jenny Vaughan writes information books and educational television programmes for children.