The Vegetables We Eat

What are vegetables, anyway? Give kids the 411 on veggies with this richly illustrated introduction to produce!


Peppers, beans, corn, and peas!  Nonfiction superstar Gail Gibbons lays out the basics of veggies with colorful watercolors and straightforward text. Learn how they grow, how they get to stores, and how many kinds there are—and learn some weird trivia, too!

Diagrams, cross sections, and illustrations get kids up close and personal with glossy red peppers, plump orange pumpkins, delectable little peas, and dozens of other vegetables in this essential primer on the subject.

• The Fruits We Eat
• From Seed to Plant
• Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt: (Nature Book for Kids, Gardening and Vegetable Planting, Outdoor Nature Book)
• Good Enough to Eat: A Kid's Guide to Food and Nutrition
• How Did That Get in My Lunchbox?: The Story of Food (Exploring the Everyday)
• The Honey Makers
• National Geographic Readers: Seed to Plant
• How a Seed Grows (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1)
• Growing Vegetable Soup (Voyager Books)
• Teacher Created Materials - TIME For Kids Informational Text: How Plants Grow - Grade 1 - Guided Reading Level E