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📘 The Cod's Tale by Mark Kurlansky

First publish date: September 10, 2001

Authors: Mark Kurlansky

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📘 COD; A BIOGRAPHY OF THE FISH THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

by Mark Kurlansky

A sweeping account of the codfish—from medieval Basque trade to the frozen‑fry industry—showing how this humble fish powered wars, economies, and diets across four continents.

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📘 The Food of a Younger Land

by Mark Kurlansky

This book is a portrait of American food -- before the national highway system, before chain restaurants, and before frozen food, when the nation's food was seasonal, regional, and traditional -- from the lost WPA files. An anthology with introduction and annotations of the unpublished manuscripts from the last WPA writers project, an exploration of food and eating in America in 1940. This broad assortment of raw, unpublished, 1940 manuscripts, including works by Nelson Algren, Eudora Welty and Zora Neale Hurston reveal a very different America with a different cuisine and a different society. Illustrated with linocuts by the author. - Publisher.

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📘 Fish Eyes

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Lois Ehlert’s vibrant picture book uses brightly colored fish to guide young readers through counting and simple addition in playful rhyme.

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📘 The MeatEater Fish and Game Cookbook

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📘 Blue sea

by Robert Kalan

A whimsical child’s book that explores how fishes of different sizes introduce space relationships and size differences in the ocean.

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📘 Splash!

by Ann Jonas

A playful picture book that invites young readers to count a turtle, fish, frogs, a dog, and a cat as they flood and drain a backyard pond, turning counting into a lively splashy adventure.

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📘 One less fish

by Kim Michelle Toft

Counting down from twelve to zero, the reader learns about some of the fish found on the Great Barrier Reef and the threats to their continued existence.

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