Banana

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It is a fun read and you will find yourself saying (or thinking, if you don’t want to make the person next to you on the subway slowly edge away) “I did not know that. And even if the land was laying fallow, they refused to release it back to the local government for other uses. Dan Koeppel’s Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World has incredible detail on the history and science of the banana but has significant issues with fluidity and focus. A seedless fruit with a unique reproductive system, every banana is a genetic duplicate of the next, and therefore susceptible to the same blights.

Also, since the book doesn’t have the most up to date information on how bananas are fighting Panama disease now, I was encouraged to look up the information online. By submitting a review you grant us the right to display and use it in any way; please read our General Legal Notices for full details. One Banana, Two Bananas is a catchy rhyming book with lots of interaction – little people can join in the rhyme and predict what comes next. It's odd that while many educated Americans know the year the Titanic sank, for example, scarcely any of them know the provenance of the items on their breakfast table – the coffee in their cup or the banana sliced onto their cornflakes.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. The limited use of words and the very clear and animated illustrations allows the reader to make the story what they want and allows children to interact and be creative in the process. Rich cultural lore surrounds the fruit: In ancient translations of the Bible, the 'apple' consumed by Eve is actually a banana (it makes sense, doesn't it? Zoey Abbott tackles parental distraction in a quirky and hilarious way in this parable about too much of a good thing.

Banana Republic" is no misnomer - Central American and Caribbean governments existed at the pleasure of the banana companies. There's more in here about corporate and pan-American politics than I expected on first hearing about the book, and I really enjoyed reading it. Recently, there have been significant developments regarding the structure of UCAS personal statements, which we believe is crucial information for all prospective students.I’d rate Bananas two and a half stars – I enjoyed the subject matter but was often irritated at author Dan Koeppel’s manner of telling it.