The Black and White Factory

2016-08-30 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Eric Telchin
Release : 2016-08-30
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 771/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Black and White Factory by : Eric Telchin

Download or read book The Black and White Factory written by Eric Telchin. This book was released on 2016-08-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing The Black and White Factory, an interactive and entertaining picture book in the vein of Hervé Tullet's Press Here and Mix It Up! Welcome to the Black and White Factory! Penguin, zebra, and panda will take you on a top-secret tour to see some black and white products that are made here, like salt and pepper shakers, dice, half decks of playing cards (only spades and clubs!), chess pieces, and tuxedos, in addition to a few special experimental projects. There are a few rules, though: No messes. No colors. No surprises allowed. EVER. But when the tour gets to the bar code room, some color has seeped in! It's up to the reader to try and rub it off and tilt the book so that it comes off, but nothing works! The animals then use a giant cleaning contraption and need you to help blow into the nozzle to power the machine, and it starts to work! But there's too much color to clean, and it blows color all over the factory. And the animals love it! But of course, they'll have to change the rules a bit now: messes, colors, surprises allowed. forEVER!

The Black and White Factory & The Color Factory

2021-11-02 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Eric Telchin
Release : 2021-11-02
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 470/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Black and White Factory & The Color Factory by : Eric Telchin

Download or read book The Black and White Factory & The Color Factory written by Eric Telchin. This book was released on 2021-11-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing The Color Factory and The Black and White Factory Two-In-One, an interactive and entertaining two-in-one picture book in the vein of Hervé Tullet's Press Here and Mix It Up! Welcome to the Color Factory! Penguin, zebra, and panda want to show you all the wonderful, factory-approved colors that are made here, like Robin's Egg Blue, Canary Yellow, Chocolate Brown, and Fire Engine Red. But when the tour reaches the perfect replicator machine, the factory workers mix Canary Yellow and Fire Engine Red, creating a new color! Quickly, get the non-factory-approved colors off the page! Otherwise, the factory must be closed. Can penguin, zebra, and panda come together to approve the new colors (which are fluorescent!)? Flip the book over for another adventure! Welcome to the Black and White Factory! Penguin, zebra, and panda are back, and they would like to take you on a top-secret tour to see some black and white products that are made here, like salt and pepper shakers, dice, half decks of playing cards (only spades and clubs!), chess pieces, and tuxedos, in addition to a few special experimental projects. But, oh no, some color has seeped into the bar code room! It's up to the reader to try and rub it off, tilt the book so that it slides off, and blow into the nozzle to power a cleaning machine! Can you sort out this mess before color explodes all over the factory?

Factory Summers

2022-08-03 Comics & Graphic Novels

Author : Guy Delisle
Release : 2022-08-03
Genre : Comics & Graphic Novels
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Book Rating : 703/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Factory Summers written by Guy Delisle. This book was released on 2022-08-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For three summers beginning when he was 16, cartoonist Guy Delisle worked at a pulp and paper factory in Quebec City. Factory Summers chronicles the daily rhythms of life in the mill, and the twelve hour shifts he spent in a hot, noisy building filled with arcane machinery. Delisle takes his noted outsider perspective and applies it domestically, this time as a boy amongst men through the universal rite of passage of the summer job. Even as a teenager, Delisle’s keen eye for hypocrisy highlights the tensions of class and the rampant sexism an all-male workplace permits. Guy works the floor doing physically strenuous tasks. He is one of the few young people on site, and furthermore gets the job through his father’s connections, a fact which rightfully earns him disdain from the lifers. Guy’s dad spends his whole career in the white collar offices, working 9 to 5 instead of the rigorous 12-hour shifts of the unionized labor. Guy and his dad aren’t close, and Factory Summers leaves Delisle reconciling whether the job led to his dad’s aloofness and unhappiness. On his days off, Guy finds refuge in art, a world far beyond the factory floor. Delisle shows himself rediscovering comics at the public library, and preparing for animation school–only to be told on the first day, “There are no jobs in animation.” Eager to pursue a job he enjoys, Guy throws caution to the wind. Translated by Helge Dascher and Rob Aspinall

Factory Man

2014-07-15 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Beth Macy
Release : 2014-07-15
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 568/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Factory Man by : Beth Macy

Download or read book Factory Man written by Beth Macy. This book was released on 2014-07-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant New York Times bestseller about one man's battle to save hundreds of jobs by demonstrating the greatness of American business. The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for generations, it was also the center of life in Bassett, Virginia. But beginning in the 1980s, the first waves of Asian competition hit, and ultimately Bassett was forced to send its production overseas. One man fought back: John Bassett III, a shrewd and determined third-generation factory man, now chairman of Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Co, which employs more than 700 Virginians and has sales of more than $90 million. In Factory Man, Beth Macy brings to life Bassett's deeply personal furniture and family story, along with a host of characters from an industry that was as cutthroat as it was colorful. As she shows how he uses legal maneuvers, factory efficiencies, and sheer grit and cunning to save hundreds of jobs, she also reveals the truth about modern industry in America.

The Cigar Factory

2016-02-09 Fiction

Author : Michele Moore
Release : 2016-02-09
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 917/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Cigar Factory written by Michele Moore. This book was released on 2016-02-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two women kept apart by segregation at a Southern cigar factory forge a powerful alliance in the labor rights movement in this historical novel. With evocative dialect and remarkable prose, The Cigar Factory tells the story of two entwined families—the white McGonegals and the African American Ravenels—in the storied port city of Charleston, South Carolina, during the World Wars. Moore’s novel follows the parallel lives of family matriarchs working on segregated floors of the massive Charleston cigar factory, where white and black workers remain divided and misinformed about the duties and treatment received by each other. Cassie McGonegal and her niece Brigid work upstairs in the factory rolling cigars by hand. Meliah Amey Ravenel works in the basement, where she stems the tobacco. While both suffer in the harsh working conditions of the factory and endure the sexual harassment of the foremen, segregation keeps them from recognizing their common plight until the Tobacco Workers Strike of 1945. Through the experience of a brutal picket line, the two women discover how much they stand to gain by joining forces, creating a powerful moment in labor history that gives rise to the Civil Rights anthem, “We Shall Overcome.” Moore’s historical research includes interviews with family members who worked at the cigar factory, adding nuance and authenticity to her empowering story of struggle, loss, and redemption. Foreword by New York Times best-selling author Pat Conroy Winner of the 2016 David J. Langum, Sr. Prize

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