A sembrar sopa de verduras/growing vegetable soup - Lois Ehlert

Ehlert's award-winning picture book about vegetable gardening for the very young is now available as a bilingual board book, written in both English and Spanish.

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.