Growing Vegetable Soup
Lois Ehlert. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P, $17 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-15-232575-6
The title says everything the book contains. First, there is the idea, then the actual work: tools are employed for planting seeds that grow first into sprouts, then into plants and then vegetables. The process involves water, weeding, digging up and washing; finally, there is the reward of cooking the vegetables and, yes, eating the soup at the end of the chain, at least this year. The book provides a healthy dose of completely digestible information on growing and nurturing living things; it's also a zesty introduction to vivid, abstract art. Both Ehlert's illustrations and her basic instructions shed light and color on the simple pleasures of gardening. Ages 3-8. (March)
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Reviewed on: 03/12/1987
Genre: Children's
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