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Chef Yasmina and the potato panic / Water Mannaert ; English translation by Montana Kane.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Dutch Publisher: New York : First Second, 2021Copyright date: ©2019Edition: First American editionDescription: 140 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781250622044
  • 1250622042
  • 9781250622051
  • 1250622050
Other title:
  • Previously published under the title: Yasmina and the potato-eaters
  • Potato panic
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: A young chef is the only one who can protect her town from an onslaught of scientifically enhanced, highly addictive potatoes. Yasmina isn't like the other kids in her city. She might be an oddball, but no one can deny that Yasmina has a flair for food. All she needs to whip up a gourmet meal is a recipe from her cookbook and fresh vegetable form the community garden. But everything changes when the garden is bulldozed and replaced with a strange new crop of potatoes. Her neighbors can't get enough of these spuds! And after just one bite their behavior changes--they slobber, chase cats, and howl at the moon. What's the secret ingredient in these potatoes that has everyone acting like a bunch of crazed canines? Yasmina needs to find a cure, and fast!
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's Graphic Novel CHEF YASMINA Available 33111009784592
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's Graphic Novel CHEF YASMINA Available 33111010469274
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Eleven-year-old Yasmina and her single dad lead a modest life in a cramped apartment in a bustling city. But even though money is tight, they eat like kings. Every day, Yasmina uses her cookbooks and fresh vegetables from the community garden to whip up gourmet meals. That is, until the day the garden is bulldozed and replaced by a field of scientifically enhanced potatoes that are, quite literally, addictive! The whole city--and even Yasmina's dad--is going mad for these potatoes. And what's more, they're slobbering, chasing cats, and howling at the moon!What's the secret ingredient in these potatoes that has everyone acting like a bunch of crazy canines? Yasmina needs to find a cure, and fast!

Translated from the French; originally written in Dutch.

Originally written in Dutch and translated to French by Laurent Bayer; originally published in 2019 in French by Dargaud as Yasmina et les mangeurs de patates; previously published in 2019 by Europe Comics as two English e-books titled Yasmina and the potato-eaters: part 1 and Yasmina and the potato eaters: part 2.

A young chef is the only one who can protect her town from an onslaught of scientifically enhanced, highly addictive potatoes. Yasmina isn't like the other kids in her city. She might be an oddball, but no one can deny that Yasmina has a flair for food. All she needs to whip up a gourmet meal is a recipe from her cookbook and fresh vegetable form the community garden. But everything changes when the garden is bulldozed and replaced with a strange new crop of potatoes. Her neighbors can't get enough of these spuds! And after just one bite their behavior changes--they slobber, chase cats, and howl at the moon. What's the secret ingredient in these potatoes that has everyone acting like a bunch of crazed canines? Yasmina needs to find a cure, and fast!

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