Birdseye

Author: Mark Kurlansky
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0767930304
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
While working as a fur trapper in Labrador, Canada, Clarence Birdseye encountered an age-old problem: bad food and an unappealing, unhealthy diet. However, he observed that fresh vegetables wetted and left outside in the Arctic winds froze in a way that maintained their integrity after thawing. As a result, he developed his patented Birdseye freezing process and started the company that still bears his name. Birdseye forever changed the way we preserve, store, and distribute food, and the way we eat. Mark Kurlansky’s vibrant and affectionate narrative reveals Clarence Birdseye as a quintessential “can-do” American inventor—his other patents include an electric sunlamp, a harpoon gun to tag finback whales, and an improved incandescent lightbulb—and shows how the greatest of changes can come from the simplest of ideas and the unlikeliest of places.

Birdseye Bristoe

Author: Dan Zettwoch
Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
ISBN: 9781770460669
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A not-so-classic yarn about a mysterious stranger in a small midwestern town It's a story line we know all too well: "A mysterious stranger comes to town." Only the town is not really a town and the stranger is a gigantic cell-phone tower. The town is Birdseye Bristoe-a portmanteau name created from an interstate sign that points to two real towns-and it has only one real permanent resident, an old-timer known as Uncle. A confirmed bachelor and World War II veteran, he owns most of the real estate in town. His teenaged great-niece and -nephew visit occasionally, though the town doesn't have much to offer apart from an adult superstore, a gas station, and a tackle shop. Uncle reluctantly agrees to lease his land to a conglomerate of telecommunications carriers, and sets the somewhat random condition that the tower be built with a huge crossbar set horizontally into the mast, making it also the world's largest cross. Birdseye Bristoe begins with the destruction of the cell tower and works backward to unravel the story of its fall. This is the first full-length graphic novel from the acclaimed artist Dan Zettwoch, who is well known for his comic books and anthology work (in Kramers Ergot, Beasts II, and the Drawn & Quarterly Showcase). Zettwoch has a sharp eye for the iconography of small-town USA, and his stylized prose reveals the intermingling of a keen wit and a strong affection for his characters. Birdseye Bristoe brims with larger-than-life personalities, hilarious anecdotes, references to midwestern/mid-southern pop culture, and diagrams of the cell-tower/cross construction process.

Clarence Birdseye: Frozen Food Innovator

Author: Joanne Mattern
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 162968886X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35

Book Description
In this title, unwrap the life of talented Birds Eye frozen foods innovator, Clarence Birdseye! Readers will enjoy getting the scoop on this Food Dude, beginning with his childhood in Brooklyn, New York. Students can follow Birdseye's success story from his education at Montclair High School to his career as a fur trader and life in Labrador, Canada. Birdseye's family and his retirement years are also highlighted. Engaging text familiarizes readers with topics of interest including Birdseye's inventions such as his patented Quick Freeze Machine and development of the frozen foods market. An entertaining sidebar, a helpful timeline, a glossary, and an index, supplement the historical and color photos showcased in this inspiring biography. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Storm Mountain

Author: Tom Birdseye
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 149764593X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97

Book Description
Cat Taylor is furious when her cousin steals her father’s ashes to scatter on the mountain—but when they get caught in a blizzard, can the two work together to survive? Cat Taylor’s father and uncle, a famous search-and-rescue team, died on Storm Mountain two years ago, and Cat and her mother still can’t seem to move on. When her mom goes away on business for the weekend, Cat thinks she has the house to herself—until her cousin Ty suddenly shows up at her door, claiming his dad visited him in a dream and told him to scatter the two brothers’ ashes at the mountain’s summit. Cat refuses; how can Ty ask her to let go of her dad? But when she wakes up the next morning, Cat discovers that Ty has gone to Storm Mountain—and he took her father’s ashes with him. Determined to stop Ty before he does something crazy, Cat races up the mountain after him. But when a huge snowstorm rolls in and traps them, Cat and Ty realize they could be in more danger than they ever imagined.

Clarence Birdseye

Author: Tiffany Peterson
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 9781403432476
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
Introduces the life of Clarence Birdseye, who invented a quick-freeze method to preserve the fresh flavor of food and founded the Birds Eye Frosted Foods company in 1929.

Frozen in Time

Author: Mark Kurlansky
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0385743882
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186

Book Description
"This biography--perfect for middle-grade readers--tells the life story of Clarence Birdseye, the man who revolutionized the frozen food industry, and is adapted from Mark Kurlansky's adult work Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man. Adventurer and inventor Clarence Birdseye had a fascination with food preservation that led him to develop and patent the Birdseye freezing process and start the company that still bears his name today. His limitless curiosity spurred his other inventions, including the electric sunlamp, an improved incandescent lightbulb, and a harpoon gun to tag finback whales. This true story of an early entrepreneur is as thrilling as the story of Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg. Includes an 8-page black-and-white photo insert"--

Bird's Eye London

Author: Paul Campbell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781913134532
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
Flying into London aboard any one of the thousands of daily commercial flights, a keen-eyed passenger can be treated to an unparalleled visual experience. Viewed from above, the capital gives up its best-kept secrets; unique shapes, designs and landmarks all come together to form a stunning artwork all of their own. Welcome to Bird's Eye London.

Oh Yeah!

Author: Tom Birdseye
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
Two boys camp out in the backyard and compete to show their courage in the face of the imagined spooky creatures.

Bird's Eye View

Author: Elinor Florence
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459721454
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
A Toronto Star Bestseller! Rose, a Canadian intelligence officer in Britain in World War II, struggles with conflicting feelings about the war and a superior’s attention. Rose Jolliffe is an idealistic young woman living on a farm with her family in Saskatchewan. After Canada declares war against Germany in World War II, she joins the British Women’s Auxiliary Air Force as an aerial photographic interpreter. Working with intelligence officers at RAF Medmenham in England, Rose spies on the enemy from the sky, watching the war unfold through her magnifying glass. When her commanding officer, Gideon Fowler, sets his sights on Rose, both professionally and personally, her prospects look bright. But can he be trusted? As she becomes increasingly disillusioned by the destruction of war and Gideon’s affections, tragedy strikes, and Rose’s world falls apart. Rose struggles to rebuild her shattered life, and finds that victory ultimately lies within herself. Her path to maturity is a painful one, paralleled by the slow, agonizing progress of the war and Canada’s emergence from Britain’s shadow.

Tarantula Shoes

Author: Tom Birdseye
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497645948
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 83

Book Description
Desperate to have the right shoes to start his first day of middle school, Ryan has set his sights on the $125 Slam Dunk Sky Jumpers—but can he put together the money in time? Ryan O’Keefe can’t believe his bad luck. Moving to a new state right before sixth grade is hard enough, but when he finds out that sixth grade is part of middle school in Kentucky, he realizes he may have to spend the year getting picked on by the older students. When he meets a couple of seventh graders wearing Slam Dunk Sky Jumpers, the coolest new shoes, Ryan knows he has to have a pair, and then maybe he’ll be cool too. There’s just one problem: The shoes are $125—plus tax! Ryan’s parents give him forty dollars, so now all he has to do is come up with eighty-five more and the shoes are his. The only question is, how is he going to get eighty-five dollars in the remaining week before school starts?