Author: Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 031609157X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
In this companion book to the bestselling "I Love My Hair!, " a young boy, Miles, makes his first trip to the barbershop with his father. With the support of his dad, the barber, and the other men in the barbershop, Miles bravely sits through his first haircut.
Barber Shop Chronicles
Author: Inua Ellams
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350200166
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Newsroom, political platform, local hot spot, confession box, preacher-pulpit and football stadium. For generations, African men have gathered in barber shops to discuss the world. These are places where the banter can be barbed and the truth is always telling. Barber Shop Chronicles, which was partly inspired by verbatim recordings, is a heart-warming, hilarious and insightful play that leaps from a barber shop in Peckham to Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, Lagos and Accra over the course of a single day. It was first produced by the National Theatre, Fuel and Leeds Playhouse in 2017 and is here publishedas a Methuen Drama Student Edition with commentary and notes by Oladipo Agboluaje.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350200166
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Newsroom, political platform, local hot spot, confession box, preacher-pulpit and football stadium. For generations, African men have gathered in barber shops to discuss the world. These are places where the banter can be barbed and the truth is always telling. Barber Shop Chronicles, which was partly inspired by verbatim recordings, is a heart-warming, hilarious and insightful play that leaps from a barber shop in Peckham to Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, Lagos and Accra over the course of a single day. It was first produced by the National Theatre, Fuel and Leeds Playhouse in 2017 and is here publishedas a Methuen Drama Student Edition with commentary and notes by Oladipo Agboluaje.
Bippity Bop Barbershop
Author: Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 031609157X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
In this companion book to the bestselling "I Love My Hair!, " a young boy, Miles, makes his first trip to the barbershop with his father. With the support of his dad, the barber, and the other men in the barbershop, Miles bravely sits through his first haircut.
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 031609157X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
In this companion book to the bestselling "I Love My Hair!, " a young boy, Miles, makes his first trip to the barbershop with his father. With the support of his dad, the barber, and the other men in the barbershop, Miles bravely sits through his first haircut.
Babe Ruth Saves Baseball!
Author: Frank Murphy
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375841849
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
All across the country in 1919, people are throwing down their bats, and giving up America's national pastime, so it is up to Babe Ruth to win back fans and save baseball.
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375841849
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
All across the country in 1919, people are throwing down their bats, and giving up America's national pastime, so it is up to Babe Ruth to win back fans and save baseball.
Tales from the Barber Shop
Author: Jo Palmeri
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1412051312
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Anthony "Tony Palma" Palmeri, popular barber and humorist in Pittston, a small Pennsylvania coal-mining town, began telling jokes as he began losing hair in his twenties. With his dynamic wit, Tony built up a repertoire as "The Bald Barber," which mushroomed into a stand-up-comedian routine over a 40-year career. With the humor of Robin Williams and the gentleness of Bing Crosby, there was no frightened child whom Tony could not charm into a barber chair, and no sad person he could not make laugh. Nurses, doctors, and townsfolk agreed, "He’s better than a medicine." In Tales from the Barber Shop, his daughter, Sister Josephine Palmeri, a teaching nun in Morristown, NJ, shares Tony’s 40 years of stories, along with inspirational gems from the life of her late Dad, a heartwarming story of down-to-earth holiness and humor.
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1412051312
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Anthony "Tony Palma" Palmeri, popular barber and humorist in Pittston, a small Pennsylvania coal-mining town, began telling jokes as he began losing hair in his twenties. With his dynamic wit, Tony built up a repertoire as "The Bald Barber," which mushroomed into a stand-up-comedian routine over a 40-year career. With the humor of Robin Williams and the gentleness of Bing Crosby, there was no frightened child whom Tony could not charm into a barber chair, and no sad person he could not make laugh. Nurses, doctors, and townsfolk agreed, "He’s better than a medicine." In Tales from the Barber Shop, his daughter, Sister Josephine Palmeri, a teaching nun in Morristown, NJ, shares Tony’s 40 years of stories, along with inspirational gems from the life of her late Dad, a heartwarming story of down-to-earth holiness and humor.
Barbershop
Author: Christian R. Jones
Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors
ISBN: 9780764306952
Category : Barbershops
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is the first volume ever to explore old-time barbershop items: poles, chairs, mugs, bottles, razors, signs, and much more. It documents the occupational history of traditional barbershops, which are fading today. More than 900 items appear in over 650 color photographs with current market prices.
Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors
ISBN: 9780764306952
Category : Barbershops
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is the first volume ever to explore old-time barbershop items: poles, chairs, mugs, bottles, razors, signs, and much more. It documents the occupational history of traditional barbershops, which are fading today. More than 900 items appear in over 650 color photographs with current market prices.
The Barber AL Story
Author: Ali Alhashemi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
A story of an under-privelaged son of immigrants and all the obstacles andChallenges he went through to make it as a highly successful entrepreneur.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
A story of an under-privelaged son of immigrants and all the obstacles andChallenges he went through to make it as a highly successful entrepreneur.
The Barber Who Wanted to Pray
Author: R. C. Sproul
Publisher: Crossway
ISBN: 1433527065
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
This imaginative tale from R. C. Sproul, based on a true story, begins one evening with Mr. McFarland leading family devotions. When his daughter asks him how she should pray, Mr. McFarland shares a 500-year-old story about a barber and his famous customer. Master Peter is a barber well-known to all in his village. One day, when Martin Luther the Reformer walks into his shop, the barber musters up the courage to ask the outlawed monk how to pray. Luther responds by writing a letter to the barber. The barber's life and many others' are changed as they encounter a model for prayer by using the Lord's Prayer, the Ten Commandments, and the Apostles' Creed. Sproul's beautifully illustrated story will delight children and help them learn to pray according to the Bible. The full text of the Lord's Prayer, the Ten Commandments, and the Apostles' Creed will make this a treasured book to be returned to time after time.
Publisher: Crossway
ISBN: 1433527065
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
This imaginative tale from R. C. Sproul, based on a true story, begins one evening with Mr. McFarland leading family devotions. When his daughter asks him how she should pray, Mr. McFarland shares a 500-year-old story about a barber and his famous customer. Master Peter is a barber well-known to all in his village. One day, when Martin Luther the Reformer walks into his shop, the barber musters up the courage to ask the outlawed monk how to pray. Luther responds by writing a letter to the barber. The barber's life and many others' are changed as they encounter a model for prayer by using the Lord's Prayer, the Ten Commandments, and the Apostles' Creed. Sproul's beautifully illustrated story will delight children and help them learn to pray according to the Bible. The full text of the Lord's Prayer, the Ten Commandments, and the Apostles' Creed will make this a treasured book to be returned to time after time.
Uncle Jed's Barber Shop
Author: Margaree King Mitchell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442443642
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Coretta Scott King Award winner A young girl’s beloved uncle is a talented barber without a shop who never gives up on his dream in this richly illustrated, stirring picture book. Everyone has a favorite relative. For Sarah Jean, it’s her Uncle Jed. Living in the segregated South of the 1920s, where most people are sharecroppers, Uncle Jed is the only black barber in the county and has to travel all over the county to cut his customers’ hair. He lives for the day when he could open his very own barbershop. But there are a lot of setbacks along the way. Will Uncle Jed ever be able to open a shiny new shop?
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442443642
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Coretta Scott King Award winner A young girl’s beloved uncle is a talented barber without a shop who never gives up on his dream in this richly illustrated, stirring picture book. Everyone has a favorite relative. For Sarah Jean, it’s her Uncle Jed. Living in the segregated South of the 1920s, where most people are sharecroppers, Uncle Jed is the only black barber in the county and has to travel all over the county to cut his customers’ hair. He lives for the day when he could open his very own barbershop. But there are a lot of setbacks along the way. Will Uncle Jed ever be able to open a shiny new shop?
Tales from the Map Room
Author: Peter Barber
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Cuttin' Up
Author: Craig Marberry
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN: 9780385511643
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
The author of "Crowns" returns with an unforgettable collection of narratives, quotes, and photographs from the most sacred of spacesQthe black barber shop.
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN: 9780385511643
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
The author of "Crowns" returns with an unforgettable collection of narratives, quotes, and photographs from the most sacred of spacesQthe black barber shop.