Growing Vegetable Soup - Lois Ehlert

Together, a father and child share the joys of planting and watching seeds grow. Once their harvest of vegetables is ready, they'll cook it up into the best soup ever. This mouthwatering classic is now in a board-book format. Full color.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. Ehlert's simple, colorful cut-paper-style illustrations are child-friendly, as is the big black type. A recipe for vegetable soup tops it all off