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1) The road
Author
Language
English
Description
In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
As a multiracial London vampire who has just left home, Lydia feels uprooted from her various identities. Food is intrinsic to Asian culture, but she cannot eat anything other than blood. She is not quite alive, and yet she will live forever. She is an artist who must create, but she is in constant fear that she?ll destroy in order to sustain herself. To be a vampire, she muses, is not unlike being a woman in a society in which one is either pure...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
New and revised edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 525 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An up-to-the-minute global investigation of famine and the persistent issues the keep most of the world hungry. By one of Latin America's most famous and formidable journalists comes a book for the ages. In HUNGER, award-winning author Martin Caparros goes in search of why, in the 21st century, most of the world's inhabitants still go hungry daily and To do this he travels to places where food is scarce -- Niger and Northern India, as well as to...
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Though crocodile is surrounded by food, he doesn't know it. He's used to food coming in packages and boxes and in handy tins. Will the hungry crocodile figure it out?
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
After swallowing the Hunger Monster, Jiro begins eating everything in sight, until his family finds a way to lure the monster out of Jiro's stomach.
7) I'm hungry!
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 14 cm
Language
English
Description
"A board book about a hungry little monster who will eat everything, including you!"--
9) Hungry Bird
Author
Series
Bird (Jeremy Tankard) volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bird is hiking with his friends when his tummy rumbles. But no one packed him a snack that he likes! With every step, his hunger mounts until he collapses on the ground. How will Bird survive if he doesn't eat the perfect something this instant?!"--
11) Who's hungry?
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
The animals are all hungry. Can you help them find something tasty to eat? Flip the flaps and feed them in this endlessly satisfying and scrumptious interactive flap book for very young children. Another fun and colourful collaboration from Dean Hacohen and Scharschmidt - authors of the successful Tuck Me In! - which will be enjoyed time and time again.
12) The greedy goat
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Goat is tired of eating grass. First she tries the dog's breakfast washed down with some of the cat's milk. As Goat becomes more adventurous in her eating, the family notices that things have gone missing-- including Goat herself, who begins to feel colorfully unwell.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Gobbled by a snake, a crafty boy finds a find a way out of his predictament by encouraging the snake to eat an increasing number of animals.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Educational edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
50 million people in the US -- one in four children -- don't know where their next meal is coming from, despite our having the means to provide nutritious, affordable food for all Americans. Directors Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush examine this issue through the lens of three people who are struggling with food insecurity: Barbie, a single Philadelphia mother who grew up in poverty and is trying to provide a better life for her two kids; Rosie,...
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