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Sydney Taylor Honor Book In the new country, Shirley and her family all have big dreams. Take the family store: Shirley has great ideas about how to make it more modern! Prettier! More profitable! She even thinks she can sell the one specialty no one seems to want to try: Mama’s homemade gefilte fish. But her parents think she’s too young to help. And anyway they didn’t come to America for their little girl to work. “Go play with the cat!” they urge. This doesn’t stop Shirley’s ideas, of course. And one day, when the rest of the family has to rush out leaving her in the store with sleepy Mrs. Gottlieb…Shirley seizes her chance! P R A I S E “Charming. Paula Cohen tells an all-American tale of the Yiddish diaspora.” —The Wall Street Journal “Timeless: an indomitable protagonist and the loving family who dotes on her.” —Publishers Weekly “Beautifully illustrated….Shirley is one smart child, a real asset to her striving family. She is full of innovative ideas, which are depicted by Cohen with both humor and respect.” —Jewish Book Network "An affectionate ode to family, fish, and creative problem solving." —BookPage
A playful book about colors, for children ages 2 and up.
Boys and girls ages 2 to 5 will love learning about opposites in this sturdy board book starring Nickelodeon’s Bubble Guppies.
FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all fishes in the sea and all living things on the land were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a white convict who fell in love with a black woman and discovered too late that to love is not safe. Silly Billy Gould, invader of Australia, liar, murderer and forger, condemned to the most feared penal colony in the British Empire and there ordered to paint a book of fish.
Long ago in the deep ocean, there lived ...one smart fish! He wasn't the biggest and he wasn't the boldest, but he was the cleverest. What this smart fish wanted more than anything else was to walk upon the land. But everyone knows that fish can't walk ... can they? Find out how one smart fish can change the world in this sparkling new adventure from Chris Wormell, creator of George and the Dragon. Look inside for a list of some other books by Chris Wormell.
WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction; $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Award When thirty-year-old trans woman Wendy Reimer comes across evidence that her late grandfather—a devout Mennonite farmer—might have been transgender himself, she dismisses this revelation, having other problems at hand. But as she and her friends struggle to cope with their increasingly volatile lives—which range from alcoholism, to sex work, to suicide—Wendy grows increasingly drawn to the lost pieces of her grandfather’s life, becoming determined to unravel the mystery of his truth. Alternately warm-hearted and dark-spirited, desperate and mirthful, Little Fish explores the winter...
This book provides the detailed information you need to have your own Fish and Chip Shop and Burger Bar business. In it you will discover how to spot a good location for your premises; how you can best fit it out; and how you can start and run your own successful enterprise. Everything you need to know is here: - Whether you should buy leasehold or freehold - How to raise the start-up money you'll need - Where and how to buy the equipment you'll need - Managing food hygiene and health and safety - How to employ and manage your staff - How to advertise cost effectively - Keeping the accounts and handling VAT - And much more - even down to the author's recommended frying and cooking methods. Contents: Introduction; 1. The origins of fish and chips and beef burgers; 2. Starting in the business; 3. Buying a shop; 4. Finding supplies for your business; 5. Preparing food; 6. Food preparation; 7. The art of frying; 8. Employing staff; 9. Advertising for more business; 10. Running the premises; 11. Keeping the books; 12. Tips of the trade; 13. To transfer or to expand?; And finally...; Appendix; Index.
Meet Mincemeat: a kind, devoted and human-sized ginger cat, who lives with Great-Grandma in the village of Howdoyoudo. Mincemeat loves sewing, dancing and his motorbike. But not as much as he loves baking! He and Great-Grandma embark on all kinds of crazy adventures - like their journey to visit Aunt Petunia. Zayn is a locomotive with a secret dream. To become an express train! When he makes that dream a reality, can his driver, Berkeley Butterfingers, do anything to avert a catastrophe?
Little Fish doesn't like being the smallest fish in school. He can never keep up and he always gets left behind. Then, on a trip to the coral reef, Little Fish discovers that being small has its advantages. Find out what happens when Little Fish becomes a big hero in this fantastic underwater adventure.