BIBFRAME Work

Title

Giovanni and the fava beans

Type

• Text
• Monograph

Contribution

• Ruli, Joseph P. (author)
• Warren, Jaclyn (illustrator)

Subject

• Famines--Italy--Sicily (LCSH)
• Droughts--Italy--Sicily (LCSH)
• Saint Joseph's Day--Italy--Sicily (LCSH)

Genre Form

• Fiction (LCGFT)
• Juvenile fiction
• Picture books (LCGFT)

Language

• eng

Classification

DDC: [Fic]

Content

• text

Summary

"Set in Sicily during the Middle Ages, this inviting picture book shares the origins of the St. Joseph Altar tradition. When young Giovanni's community suffers a terrible drought, he is upset to find fava beans--what he feeds the pigs--on his dinner plate due to the failure of the crops. An encounter with a starving girl sparks a conversion of heart from ingratitude to generosity, and Giovanni looks to heavenly patron St. Joseph to intercede for his community. When rain arrives the answered prayers are celebrated with building altars in honor of St. Joseph (a tradition still carried on in New Orleans and other communities today)."-- Amazon website.

Authorized Access Point

Ruli, Joseph P. Giovanni and the fava beans

Geographic Coverage

• Italy

Intended audience

• juvenile
• Children

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-30T17:47:41.378585+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 23591790

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-30
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc