{"product_id":"beautiful-bananas-book-elizabeth-laird-9780192790972","title":"Beautiful Bananas","description":"Beautiful Bananas is an imaginative picture book in the African folktale tradition.  A little girl sets off through the jungle to take a beautiful bunch of bananas to her grandfather.  On the way she encounters a number of wild, but friendly animals who take her bananas, but then apologise and replace them with various treats, until finally an elephnat gives her another bunch of bananas.  A beautiful circular tale, the kind of which often appears in folklore around the world.  This particular story is often heard in East Africa.  Elizabeth Laird is a high profile, award-winning author who has been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and has won the Smarties Young Judges prize.  She is also a specialist in African folklore.  Her acclaimed works include When the World Began published by Oxford University Press.  Liz Pichon is an exciting new children's book illustrator who has worked on a number of successful reference series for Oxford University Press.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49550031946001,"sku":"GOR010740742","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52521439035665,"sku":"GOR014549096","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0192790978.jpg?v=1751101116","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/beautiful-bananas-book-elizabeth-laird-9780192790972","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}