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Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In this fascinating exploration of the banana, 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. The banana: convenient, cheap, tasty - a reliable, if plain, family favorite. Or so the average consumer might think. Koeppel debunks the myth of the ordinary banana, revealing its many mysteries and uncovering its shockingly endangered...
Author
Publisher
Greystone Kids
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In a park, a child walks a banana on the end of a leash. This unusual thing, to say the least, attracts the attention of passers-by who gather around. A long discussion ensues where people try to understand why the child is walking a banana, while the child tries to make them understand that the banana is a dog. More precisely, a dog-banana. A small moment of everyday life, My Dog Banana is a jewel of absurdity that will make children and adults...
Author
Publisher
Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A group of kid-experimenters at a science fair explore the slipperiness of banana peels--a perfect introduction to scientific concepts. It's funny and STEM-inspired, with back matter on friction and a kitchen science experiment.
Author
Publisher
Inhabit Media Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Benny loves bananas. He eats them morning, noon, and night. He even rides a bike with a yellow banana seat. In fact, Benny has a secret, he hopes one day he will turn into a banana! And if there is one thing Benny knows, it's that with a little imagination anything is possible. A funny and relatable story of a little boy who can be anything he wants to be (whether it's a dinosaur, or a banana, or both!) with a big imagination and a bit of help from...
7) Banana dream
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Eleven-year-old Iraqi, Mooz, yearns to taste the bananas that have been made unavailable by warfare.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Savannah Bananas have peeled back the game of baseball and made it fun again. This is their story"--
Cole dreamed of pitching in the Majors. Instead he reshaped Savannah, Georgia's professional team into the league champion Savannah Bananas. And now the Bananas have restyled baseball itself into something all their own: they throw out a first banana rather than a ball. Their first-base coach dances between innings. And the rules themselves are...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Español
Description
Un delicioso libro ilustrado sobre las formas en que los plátanos dan forma a la cultura, la comunidad, y la familia Latina/o/x/e, contado a través de las experiencias de una niña en la cocina con su abuela.
Esme learns the cultural significance of plantains while cooking alongside her grandmother.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"From the author-illustrator team behind Go Go Gorillas comes this lively, rhyming read-aloud starring a baby gorilla who refuses to eat his dinner. Perfect for picky eaters everywhere! It's suppertime in the jungle, but Baby Gorilla refuses to eat anything Mama and Papa make for him--not banana chips with green guacamole or a piping-hot plate of plantain ravioli. He says no to a dish of bananas flambé and turns up his nose at banana soufflé! Step...
12) The big banana
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This new film exposes multinational corporation culpability in the land grab of Africa which makes us reconsider where we get our fruit from. Banned in Cameroon, The big banana illustrates the poor working conditions in banana plantations and exposes the adverse impact of corporatocracy government on the people while reaping super profits for corporations. The side effects of plantation corporations on the people of Africa - and everywhere else in...
Author
Publisher
Flamingo Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A is for Awake . . . but B is for Bedtime. When the narrator of this alphabet book tries to make it a bedtime book, Banana objects. Bedtime is BORING! And Banana is the star of this book, so it should really be called B Is for Bananas instead. It shouldn't be about bedtime at all. Journey through all the letters of the alphabet in this laugh-out-loud story from Carrie Tillotson and Estrela Louren�co about a banana who is NOT ready to go to bed."--...
14) Banana Zorro
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, un sello editorial de Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2022]-
Language
Español
Description
The great detective Banana Fox is called back to duty to find a missing turtle. But the deeper he digs, the more he discovers, and it's worse than he thought! The Secret Sour Society is back, and they're mixing up a bunch of trouble. Can Banana Fox and his sidekick, Flashlight, put an end to the Secret Sour Society once and for all?
Author
Series
Monkey goes bananas volume 1
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Monkey, having spied a banana tree across the water, will stop at nothing to get a snack.
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