"Delightful pen-and-ink illustrations enhance this outstanding volume of children's poetry. From 'Caterpillar Kids' to 'Meatball Maniacs, ' the poems are funny, clever and hip" Cf. Our choice, 2003

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In this compelling history, Peter Chapman shows how the United Fruit Company took bananas from the jungles of Costa Rica to the halls of power in Washington, D.C., with not just clever marketing, but covert CIA operations, bloody coups and brutalised workforces. And how along the way they turned the banana into a blueprint for a new model of unfettered global capitalism: one that serves corporate power at any cost.

In the Caribbean Windward Islands, one in three jobs and half of export earnings depend on bananas. Banana Wars tells how the US government, answering the grievances of a single American corporation, forced the World Trade Organization to nullify a European Community commitment to protect small Caribbean banana growers.

In 1918, as the Great War in Europe was nearing its climactic end, Allied nations sent troops up to Archangel in North Russia. This is the story of those soldiers, told in their own words.