Banana

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She has published ten books in English translation and her work has been translated and published in over thirty countries. Using only two words, this is a fantastic introduction to the value of manners and compromise for young children. Yet as inventive and prescient as they were, their colonial mindset blinded them to the dangers of short-term dominance. A quirky and hilarious picture book parable about parental distraction and a daughter’s clever solution. This is why they're so easily devastated by crop fungus such as Panama disease and Black Sigatoka, and also why it's so difficult to breed resistant bananas (they don't reproduce!

Using this strategy, Ceballos creates a house of mirrors in which the legal, historical, anthropological, and agricultural language of violence employed by the US empire across Central America can be dissected. Charlie tricks his younger sister, Lola - an extremely fussy eater - into eating all her least favourite foods. Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World is as much about an essential food product that is dying as it is about how US corporate interests -- United Fruit / Chiquita and Dole have changed the world and not for the better. Also, there are hundreds of different types of bananas, making the Cavendish banana we eat relatively dull. Little children will giggle at the gorilla pictured with his bum out, while grown ups with foodrejecting offspring should enjoy the drawing of his disgusted face as he rebuffs the snack.The chapters are linked very loose in chronology and switch topics left and right, leaving the reader confused. Banana: A Global History takes us from the agricultural beginnings of the banana in New Guinea to its almost ubiquitous presence in culinary repertoires around the globe, from the United States to the Caribbean, from regions of Africa to the heart of Southeast Asia. Hanya karena kesalahan penerjemahan bibel saja membuat orang awam jadi mengira buah yang menggoda Hawa itu adalah buah apel. A fascinating look at the history of the banana, from its spread as a wild fruit across the globe to its cultivation and sale.

Set in the Second World War this is a touching atmospheric story about a girl whose mission is to find a banana to cheer up her mother. I had a premonition of setting out on a journey and getting lost inside a distant tide … It was the beginning of summer, and I was nineteen years old.The loss of our American favorite banana, the Cavendish, from grocery shelves will be an inconvenience at most; the fact that two major American corporations are, double-handedly (is that a word? The reasons why bananas are threatened with global extinction despite being one of the most successful agricultural crops are fascinating, and chilling.

People may know a banana is yellow and that you have to peel it, but that is nothing compared to what you learn in this book.

Then, willy-nilly, Koeppel treats us to another short three-page discourse, this time on the spread of that bane of banana plantations, Panama disease.

The growth and development of the fruit we know and love today is entangled with colonial practices, capitalist enterprise, sexual politics and even horrific murders. Whatever you got up to on World Book Day - whether you had an author visit, or you all dressed up, or you decorated your classroom, or painted a spud - I hope you had loads of fun celebrating the joy of reading. This hand goes behind the child's back and the rhyme restarts, continuing until only one fist remains. Koeppel relates the long history of the banana, starting with the very probable idea that the original fruit in the Garden of Eden would have been a banana, not an apple. I was skeptical about the story because it only had two words in it---would kids pay attention if the book didn't have more "story" to it.The author was right to end the story before completing the narrative arc, leaving the reader to imagine the true ending for his deftly crafted characters: eventual death by starvation. I was more familiar with the latter, having read an interesting article in The New Yorker in December 2010 on the spread of a devastating fungus that is jeopardizing the world’s supply of what has become a monoculture: the Cavendish banana.