Author: Justine Clarke
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 1760891665
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
If an eggplant really grew eggs, chickens would be out of a job. If a catfish was really made of cats, then it might get chased by a dog. And a banana is a banana. That's what it's called, I don't know why. Join the band for some fun with words and rhymes in this laugh-out-loud picture book based on the award-winning song 'A Banana is a Banana'.
A Banana is a Banana
Author: Justine Clarke
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 1760891665
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
If an eggplant really grew eggs, chickens would be out of a job. If a catfish was really made of cats, then it might get chased by a dog. And a banana is a banana. That's what it's called, I don't know why. Join the band for some fun with words and rhymes in this laugh-out-loud picture book based on the award-winning song 'A Banana is a Banana'.
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 1760891665
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
If an eggplant really grew eggs, chickens would be out of a job. If a catfish was really made of cats, then it might get chased by a dog. And a banana is a banana. That's what it's called, I don't know why. Join the band for some fun with words and rhymes in this laugh-out-loud picture book based on the award-winning song 'A Banana is a Banana'.
Banana
Author: Dan Koeppel
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781594630385
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
"Award-winning journalist Dan Koeppel navigates across the planet and throughout history, telling the cultural and scientific story of the world's most ubiquitous fruit"--Page 4 of cover.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781594630385
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
"Award-winning journalist Dan Koeppel navigates across the planet and throughout history, telling the cultural and scientific story of the world's most ubiquitous fruit"--Page 4 of cover.
If I Was a Banana
Author: Alexandra Tylee
Publisher: Gecko Press (Tm)
ISBN: 1776570332
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Place of distribution from distributor's website.
Publisher: Gecko Press (Tm)
ISBN: 1776570332
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Place of distribution from distributor's website.
Banana!
Author: Ed Vere
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805092145
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Two monkeys learn to share.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805092145
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Two monkeys learn to share.
Banana
Author: Lorna Piatti-Farnell
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780236069
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Sweet but starchy, soft but toothsome—and so easy to peel they just beg to be devoured—bananas are one of our favorite foods, found everywhere from gas station counters to Michelin star restaurants. Yet for as versatile and ubiquitous as this fruit is today, its history is a turbulent one, entangled in colonial domination, capitalist exploitation, sexual politics, and even horrific violence. Delving into the banana’s past, this book traces the complex circumstances of global modernity that perfectly aligned to grant us, often at tremendous costs, a treat we all now take for granted. Beginning with the banana’s origins in New Guinea, Lorna Piatti-Farnell follows its pathways to South East Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, binding together a millennium of history into one digestible bunch. Focusing especially on the banana’s recent past, she shows how it rose from a regional staple to a global commodity, on par with coffee and sugar. She examines the ways it has been advertised, sold, and incorporated into popular culture, moving from nineteenth-century medical manuals to cookbooks, songs, slapstick comedy, and problematic figures like Miss Chiquita. Wide-ranging but pocket-sized, Banana is a culinary and cultural account of a peculiar little fruit that is at once the icon of exoticism and one of the most familiar foods we eat.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780236069
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Sweet but starchy, soft but toothsome—and so easy to peel they just beg to be devoured—bananas are one of our favorite foods, found everywhere from gas station counters to Michelin star restaurants. Yet for as versatile and ubiquitous as this fruit is today, its history is a turbulent one, entangled in colonial domination, capitalist exploitation, sexual politics, and even horrific violence. Delving into the banana’s past, this book traces the complex circumstances of global modernity that perfectly aligned to grant us, often at tremendous costs, a treat we all now take for granted. Beginning with the banana’s origins in New Guinea, Lorna Piatti-Farnell follows its pathways to South East Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, binding together a millennium of history into one digestible bunch. Focusing especially on the banana’s recent past, she shows how it rose from a regional staple to a global commodity, on par with coffee and sugar. She examines the ways it has been advertised, sold, and incorporated into popular culture, moving from nineteenth-century medical manuals to cookbooks, songs, slapstick comedy, and problematic figures like Miss Chiquita. Wide-ranging but pocket-sized, Banana is a culinary and cultural account of a peculiar little fruit that is at once the icon of exoticism and one of the most familiar foods we eat.
The Day The Banana Went Bad
Author: Michelle Robinson
Publisher: Scholastic UK
ISBN: 0702301140
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
A fantastically funny book about loving what makes you YOU! When Banana is thrown into the 'reject' bin with the other mis-shapen fruit and veg, he decides that enough is enough - he may be a little bit bruised but that doesn't mean he's any less brilliant! So be proud of your bumps! Because going bad can sometimes be very, very good.
Publisher: Scholastic UK
ISBN: 0702301140
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
A fantastically funny book about loving what makes you YOU! When Banana is thrown into the 'reject' bin with the other mis-shapen fruit and veg, he decides that enough is enough - he may be a little bit bruised but that doesn't mean he's any less brilliant! So be proud of your bumps! Because going bad can sometimes be very, very good.
The Life of a Banana
Author: P. P. Wong
Publisher: Legends Press
ISBN: 9781787198562
Category : Chinese fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Xing Li is what some Chinese people call a banana - yellow on the outside and white on the inside. Although born and raised in London, she never feels like she fits in. When her mother dies, she moves with her older brother to live with venomous Grandma, strange Uncle Ho and Hollywood actress Auntie Mei. Her only friend is Jay - a mixed raced Jamaican boy with a passion for classical music. . Then Xing Li's life takes an even harsher turn: the school bullying escalates and her uncle requests she assist him in an unthinkable favour. Her happy childhood becomes a distant memory as her new life is infiltrated with the harsh reality of being an ethnic minority. Consumed by secrets, violence and confusing family relations, Xing Li tries to find hope wherever she can. In order to find her own identity, she must first discover what it means to be both Chinese and British. PP Wong has delivered a unique and realistic young adult drama that is bursting with original content style and emotion. What Reviewers and Readers Say: 'PP Wong has blazed a trail for future British Chinese novelists ... bursting with original and exciting flavours, ' The Independent 'A moving and optimistic debut about orphaned siblings coping with a new strict home and racial bullying, ' The Guardian 'Life of a Banana is so refreshingly distinct. Read it, and you will soon find yourself wanting more, ' Daily Mail 'Impeccably observed, often hilarious, and deeply moving... pitch-perfect, ' David Henry Hwang
Publisher: Legends Press
ISBN: 9781787198562
Category : Chinese fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Xing Li is what some Chinese people call a banana - yellow on the outside and white on the inside. Although born and raised in London, she never feels like she fits in. When her mother dies, she moves with her older brother to live with venomous Grandma, strange Uncle Ho and Hollywood actress Auntie Mei. Her only friend is Jay - a mixed raced Jamaican boy with a passion for classical music. . Then Xing Li's life takes an even harsher turn: the school bullying escalates and her uncle requests she assist him in an unthinkable favour. Her happy childhood becomes a distant memory as her new life is infiltrated with the harsh reality of being an ethnic minority. Consumed by secrets, violence and confusing family relations, Xing Li tries to find hope wherever she can. In order to find her own identity, she must first discover what it means to be both Chinese and British. PP Wong has delivered a unique and realistic young adult drama that is bursting with original content style and emotion. What Reviewers and Readers Say: 'PP Wong has blazed a trail for future British Chinese novelists ... bursting with original and exciting flavours, ' The Independent 'A moving and optimistic debut about orphaned siblings coping with a new strict home and racial bullying, ' The Guardian 'Life of a Banana is so refreshingly distinct. Read it, and you will soon find yourself wanting more, ' Daily Mail 'Impeccably observed, often hilarious, and deeply moving... pitch-perfect, ' David Henry Hwang
Notes on a Banana
Author: David Leite
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062414399
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
A FINALIST FOR THE NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD FOR NON FICTION A PASTE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF TIMEOUT NEW YORK’S BEST SUMMER BEACH READS OF 2017 ONE OF REAL SIMPLE’S 25 FATHER’S DAY BOOKS THAT COVER ALL OF DAD’S INTERESTS The stunning and long-awaited memoir from the beloved founder of the James Beard Award-winning website Leite’s Culinaria—a candid, courageous, and at times laugh-out-loud funny story of family, food, mental illness, and sexual identity. Born into a family of Azorean immigrants, David Leite grew up in the 1960s in a devoutly Catholic, blue-collar, food-crazed Portuguese home in Fall River, Massachusetts. A clever and determined dreamer with a vivid imagination and a flair for the dramatic, “Banana” as his mother endearingly called him, yearned to live in a middle-class house with a swinging kitchen door just like the ones on television, and fell in love with everything French, thanks to his Portuguese and French-Canadian godmother. But David also struggled with the emotional devastation of manic depression. Until he was diagnosed in his mid-thirties, David found relief from his wild mood swings in learning about food, watching Julia Child, and cooking for others. Notes on a Banana is his heartfelt, unflinchingly honest, yet tender memoir of growing up, accepting himself, and turning his love of food into an award-winning career. Reminiscing about the people and events that shaped him, David looks back at the highs and lows of his life: from his rejection of being gay and his attempt to “turn straight” through Aesthetic Realism, a cult in downtown Manhattan, to becoming a writer, cookbook author, and web publisher, to his twenty-four-year relationship with Alan, known to millions of David’s readers as “The One,” which began with (what else?) food. Throughout the journey, David returns to his stoves and tables, and those of his family, as a way of grounding himself. A blend of Kay Redfield Jamison’s An Unquiet Mind, the food memoirs by Ruth Reichl, Anthony Bourdain, and Gabrielle Hamilton, and the character-rich storytelling of Augusten Burroughs, David Sedaris, and Jenny Lawson, Notes on a Banana is a feast that dazzles, delights, and, ultimately, heals.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062414399
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
A FINALIST FOR THE NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD FOR NON FICTION A PASTE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF TIMEOUT NEW YORK’S BEST SUMMER BEACH READS OF 2017 ONE OF REAL SIMPLE’S 25 FATHER’S DAY BOOKS THAT COVER ALL OF DAD’S INTERESTS The stunning and long-awaited memoir from the beloved founder of the James Beard Award-winning website Leite’s Culinaria—a candid, courageous, and at times laugh-out-loud funny story of family, food, mental illness, and sexual identity. Born into a family of Azorean immigrants, David Leite grew up in the 1960s in a devoutly Catholic, blue-collar, food-crazed Portuguese home in Fall River, Massachusetts. A clever and determined dreamer with a vivid imagination and a flair for the dramatic, “Banana” as his mother endearingly called him, yearned to live in a middle-class house with a swinging kitchen door just like the ones on television, and fell in love with everything French, thanks to his Portuguese and French-Canadian godmother. But David also struggled with the emotional devastation of manic depression. Until he was diagnosed in his mid-thirties, David found relief from his wild mood swings in learning about food, watching Julia Child, and cooking for others. Notes on a Banana is his heartfelt, unflinchingly honest, yet tender memoir of growing up, accepting himself, and turning his love of food into an award-winning career. Reminiscing about the people and events that shaped him, David looks back at the highs and lows of his life: from his rejection of being gay and his attempt to “turn straight” through Aesthetic Realism, a cult in downtown Manhattan, to becoming a writer, cookbook author, and web publisher, to his twenty-four-year relationship with Alan, known to millions of David’s readers as “The One,” which began with (what else?) food. Throughout the journey, David returns to his stoves and tables, and those of his family, as a way of grounding himself. A blend of Kay Redfield Jamison’s An Unquiet Mind, the food memoirs by Ruth Reichl, Anthony Bourdain, and Gabrielle Hamilton, and the character-rich storytelling of Augusten Burroughs, David Sedaris, and Jenny Lawson, Notes on a Banana is a feast that dazzles, delights, and, ultimately, heals.
One Banana, Two Bananas
Author: Adam Guillain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781405294188
Category : Bananas
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Learn to count to ten in this hilarious new rhyming picture book series from the bestselling authors of George's Amazing Adventures and the illustrator of the award-winning Mr Pusskins! ONE banana, TWO bananas, THREE bananas, FOUR . . . Join in the simple, catchy rhyme in this madcap counting adventure. Featuring bananas in pyjamas, a llama panorama, an inflatable banana boat and lots of other nonsense that children will love. With a catchy counting rhythm, this is a great way to help children learn to count in a fun, accessible way.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781405294188
Category : Bananas
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Learn to count to ten in this hilarious new rhyming picture book series from the bestselling authors of George's Amazing Adventures and the illustrator of the award-winning Mr Pusskins! ONE banana, TWO bananas, THREE bananas, FOUR . . . Join in the simple, catchy rhyme in this madcap counting adventure. Featuring bananas in pyjamas, a llama panorama, an inflatable banana boat and lots of other nonsense that children will love. With a catchy counting rhythm, this is a great way to help children learn to count in a fun, accessible way.
Would You Like a Banana?
Author: Yasmeen Ismail
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406394221
Category : Bananas
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Award-winning illustrator Yasmeen Ismail's delightfully funny picture book featuring a very stubborn gorilla will have the whole family laughing! Gorilla is hungry but there is absolutely no way he's going to eat a banana. Not even a teeny taste. Not with some bread or standing on his head. Even if you eat one too, which is something you might do. This brilliant and hilarious picture book from award-winning illustrator Yasmeen Ismail will have everyone laughing at this all-too familiar family situation!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406394221
Category : Bananas
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Award-winning illustrator Yasmeen Ismail's delightfully funny picture book featuring a very stubborn gorilla will have the whole family laughing! Gorilla is hungry but there is absolutely no way he's going to eat a banana. Not even a teeny taste. Not with some bread or standing on his head. Even if you eat one too, which is something you might do. This brilliant and hilarious picture book from award-winning illustrator Yasmeen Ismail will have everyone laughing at this all-too familiar family situation!