"Dad says we are going to grow vegetable soup." So begins Lois Ehlert’s bright, bold picture book about vegetable gardening for the very young.

The necessary tools are pictured and labeled, as are the seeds (green bean, pea, corn, zucchini squash, and carrot). Then the real gardening happens . . . planting, weeding, harvesting, washing, chopping, and cooking!

In the end? "It was the best soup ever." 

The recipe for the vegetable soup is included at the end so you can try it for yourself!  

Ehlert’s simple, colorful cut-paper-style illustrations are child-friendly, as is the big black type. 

32 pages

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