Author: Aubrey DavisPublisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1525308475
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Energetic illustrations and a new voice put a fresh spin on a classic folk tale.
The Enormous Potato
Author: Aubrey DavisPublisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1525308475
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Energetic illustrations and a new voice put a fresh spin on a classic folk tale.
The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love
Author: Jill Conner BrownePublisher: Crown Archetype
ISBN: 1400082854
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
To know the Sweet Potato Queens is to love them, and if you haven't heard about them yet, you will. Since the early 1980s, this group of belles gone bad has been the toast of Jackson, Mississippi, with their glorious annual appearance in the St. Patrick's Day parade. In The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love, their royal ringleader, Jill Conner Browne, introduces the Queens to the world with this sly, hilarious manifesto about love, life, men, and the importance of being prepared. Chapters include: • The True Magic Words Guaranteed to Get Any Man to Do Your Bidding • The Five Men You Must Have in Your Life at All Times • Men Who May Need Killing, Quite Frankly • What to Eat When Tragedy Strikes, or Just for Entertainment • The Best Advice Ever Given in the Entire History of the World From tales of the infamous Sweet Potato Queens' Promise to the joys of Chocolate Stuff and Fat Mama's Knock You Naked Margaritas, this irreverent, shamelessly funny book is the gen-u-wine article.
Bagels from Benny
Author: Aubrey DavisPublisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1894786165
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
A lovingly told, compelling story of a young boy learning the values of caring, community and thankfulness.
Potato Pants!
Author: Laurie KellerPublisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 125022599X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
A potato and his eggplant nemesis struggle to find the perfect pants in this hilarious, heartwarming tale of forgiveness by bestselling Geisel-Award winning creator Laurie Keller. Potato is excited because today—for one day only— Lance Vance’s Fancy Pants Store is selling . . .POTATO PANTS! Potato rushes over early, but just as he’s about to walk in, something makes him stop. What could it be? Find out in this one-of-a-kind story about misunderstandings and forgiveness, and—of course—Potato Pants! A Christy Ottaviano Book This title has Common Core connections.
The Gigantic Turnip
Author: Aleksei TolstoyPublisher: Barefoot Books
ISBN: 9781905236725
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
A cumulative tale in which the turnip planted by an old man grows so enormous that everyone must help to pull it up.
Feeding the People
Author: Rebecca EarlePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108484069
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Almost no one knew what a potato was in 1500. Today they are the world's fourth most important food. How did this happen?
The Enormous Potato
Author: Aubrey DavisPublisher:
ISBN: 9781863889797
Category : Potato
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Cumulative tale based on Tolstoy's Great Big Enormous Turnip. 2-6 yrs.
Grandma Lena's Big Ol' Turnip
Author: Denia Lewis HesterPublisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807594113
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
2007-2008 Show Me Readers Award preliminary list (Missouri) 2005 Aesop Accolade, American Folklore Society Grandma Lena believes that something worth doing is worth doing right. So she takes good care of the turnips she plants in her garden. One turnip grows to an enormous size—Baby Pearl thinks it's a big potato! It is big enough to feed half the town. And it's so big that Grandma can’t pull it out of the ground! Even when Grandpa, Uncle Izzy, Aunt Netty, and the dog help Grandma yank and tug, the big ol’ turnip doesn’t budge. Still, this African-American family, including Baby Pearl, knows how to pull together.
Bone Button Borscht
Author: Aubrey DavisPublisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780613991032
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
When a beggar gets no help from anybody, even at the synagogue, he offers to use the buttons on his coat to make bone button borscht for everyone in the village, in a retelling of an old folktale reset in a small Jewish village.
Farmer Duck
Author: Martin WaddellPublisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 1536220841
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A hardworking duck is rescued from life with a lazy old farmer in this classic tale of justice. Farmer Duck isn't your average duck. This duck cooks and cleans, tends the fields, and cares for the other animals on the farm—all because the owner of the farm is too lazy to do these things himself. But when Farmer Duck finally collapses from exhaustion, the farmyard animals come to the rescue with a simple but heroic plan.