National Geographic Kids Interviews Bananagrams’ Aaron & Ava
Aaron Haggas and his grandfather Abe Nathanson were playing board games one day when they were struck with the inspiration to create their own word game! The whole family pitched in to come up with the design and rules for Bananagrams. The game begins with each player drawing the same number of tiles. Each player builds interconnecting words in front of him/her. The first player to use all his tiles and yell “Bananas!” is the…
BANANAGANZA! on The Rhode Show
This event brings to fruition the friendship and collaboration between WaterFire creator, Barnaby Evans and beloved Bananagrams inventor and life-long RI resident, Abe Nathanson, who passed away last summer.
“Banana Flambe” by Barnaby Evans
*Internationally renowned artist Barnaby Evans wrote this moving tribute to his friend and Bananagrams Founder Abe Nathanson last June. You can click here to see the article where it originally appeared on the Waterfire blog, or keep reading below: Abe was a friend. One whom I saw far too rarely, what with all his projects and mine. But whenever we encountered each other our conversations ranged far and wide. From his childhood selling fruit with…
Word of Mouth in The Boston Globe
Had a lightning bolt struck Abe Nathanson between the eyes that day, the outcome could hardly have been more, shall we say, fruitful. Four summers ago, a frustrated Nathanson was sitting at his dining room table, having lost yet another Scrabble game to his 11-year-old grandson, Aaron. It wasn’t the loss that bothered Nathanson so much. It was the two hours it had taken to play the game.Staring at his letter tiles, Nathanson said,…