The clear, bright colors should appeal to young readers.

Gardening and cooking vocabulary is used both in the text and labeled items. The text features a large bold font telling the gardening story, while all the pictured items, including tools, seeds, plants, kitchen utensils and soupware are labeled in smaller type.

Eating food that you have grown is a fulfilling experience. A recipe is included to make vegetable soup at the end of the book.Īs someone who grew up on a farm with a huge garden, I love that this book introduces the experience of vegetable gardening to many children. When the vegetables are ripe, they get picked and pulled, then cut up and cooked into soup. A child gathers tools, plants seeds and sprouts, then watches their growth. Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert explains the process of growing vegetables, starting from seeds all the way to making a pot of soup. I remember ordering this through those book orders schools would get and distribute in class for interested students. the cover is now faded and the binding held together by tape. i still have it on my book shelf, though it has seen better days. I've had this book since i was in kindergarten back in the early 90s. though i must admit, when i was a child i watched my fair share of tv shows such as lamb chop's play-along, reading rainbow, sesame street, and some 3-2-1 contact. why? because they probably wont be impressed by simplicity and static artwork. Children who like video games and watch nickelodeon or disney would not be a good candidate.

i would recommend this book, but only for children who are creative. I don't know how my parents thought of the book, but speaking from my point of view as a person who has had the book since childhood, it's a good book. there are no outlines on the illustrations which was one of the reasons, why i think the book art was all comprised of cut-outs, but none the less they are very detailed yet simple. i mean the illustrator/author even labels the 'worm' found in the broccoli. i liked how the tools and vegetables on the page have labels, aside from the large text of the actual story. it's like cut-outs of paper, yet it's true to the real thing. not just because for nostalgia reasons, but even before, as a five year old, i remember i really liked, and still do, the colors and the art work presented in the book.

Growing vegetable soup by lois ehlert