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Surviving Floods will look at children who experienced floods around the world, through history and up to the present day.

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Publié par	Capstone Global Library
Date de parution	26 mai 2011
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781406232219
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	22 Mo

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Surviving Floods

Elizabeth Raum

Raintree is an imprint ofCapstone Global Library Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales having its registered office at 7 Pilgrim Street, London, EC4V 6LB – Registered company number: 6695582

Text © Capstone Global Library Limited 2011 First published in hardback in 2011 The moral rights of the proprietor have been asserted.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means (including photocopying or storing it in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright owner, except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS (www.cla.co.uk). Applications for the copyright owner’s written permission should be addressed to the publisher.

Edited by Louise Galpine and Laura Knowles Designed by Victoria Allen Original illustrations © Capstone Global Library Limited 2011 Illustrated by HLSTUDIOS Picture research by Ruth Blair Originated by Capstone Global Library Limited Printed and bound in China by CTPS

ISBN 978 1 406 22214 2 (hardback) 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

British Library Cataloguing in Publication DataRaum, Elizabeth. Surviving floods. -- (Children’s true stories. Natural disasters) 363.3’493-dc22 A full catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

AcknowledgementsWe would like to thank the following for permission to reproduce photographs: © Corbis pp.8, 11; Corbis pp.5(© HO/Reuters),17(© Brooks Kraft/Sygma),18(© Andrew Holbrooke),19(© Andrew Holbrooke),23(© Gideon Mendel for Action Aid),24(© RAFIQUR RAHMAN/Reuters),26 (© STRINGER/epa); Getty Images pp.4(Carsten Koall), 14(Topical Press Agency),20(Chris Wilkins/AFP),21(Joe Raedle); © Glenn Baker, Easy Like Water p.25; © Johnstown Area Heritage Association Archives p.7; Library of Congress p.9(George Barker); Superstock pp.13(© Science and Society),15(© The Francis Frith Collection).

Cover photograph of a girl carrying her sister on her shoulder wading through a water logged road through a suburb in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 19 September 2004 reproduced with permission of Corbis/© Rafiqur Rahman/Reuters.

Quotations on pages 7, 9, and 10 are from David G. McCullogh,The Johnstown Flood, Simon & Schuster, 1987. Quotation on page 8 is from Christine Gibson, “Our 10 Greatest Natural Disasters”,American HeritageMagazine, August/September 2006, Volume 57, Issue 4. Mosa Rita’s story on page 23 is from Helen Rowe, “Hope floats for Bangladeshi children on school boats” October 8, 2007, TheBrunei Times.

The author would like to thank Richard Lord, Lindsey Pieper, and Mohammed Rezwan for so generously sharing their stories.

We would like to thank Daniel Block for his invaluable help in the preparation of this book.

Every effort has been made to contact copyright holders of material reproduced in this book. Any omissions will be rectified in subsequent printings if notice is given to the publisher.

Disclaimer All the internet addresses (URLs) given in this book were valid at the time of going to press. However, due to the dynamic nature of the internet, some addresses may have changed, or sites may have changed or ceased to exist since publication. While the author and publisher regret any inconvenience this may cause readers, no responsibility for any such changes can be accepted by either the author or the publisher.