There’s No Such Thing as Vegetables
$42.27
- Hardcover
40 pages
- Release Date
9 July 2024
Summary
Chester plans to have a salad for lunch, but in order to do that, he’ll need vegetables. So he goes to the community garden, except he quickly learns that he won’t be dressing a salad anytime soon. Instead, the vegetables start dressing him down. According to them, “vegetables” don’t exist!
What the bell pepper? That’s right! What we know as “vegetables” are really just a variety of different parts of a plant. Kale is a leaf, broccoli is a flower, potatoes are roots. Thanks to a livel…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781250867841 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1250867843 |
| Author: | Kyle Lukoff, Andrea Tsurumi |
| Publisher: | St Martin's Press |
| Imprint: | St Martin's Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 40 |
| Release Date: | 9 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 372g |
| Dimensions: | 9mm x 225mm x 285mm |
| Audience Age: | 4-8 |
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Critics Review
“A boy sets out for vegetables and gets an earful from a garden of anthropomorphic edible plants in funny, informational picture book … Tsurumi’s pencil-drawn, digitally colored characters add buoyant humor to Lukoff’s sly, kid-friendly demonstration of social constructs and plant biology factoids. The emotive garden flora is as rich in opinions as in nutrients. Young readers will likely giggle at their sass, which makes the educational components more palatable, just as the perfect dressing elevates a salad.” –Shelf Awareness
Kyle Lukoff
Kyle Lukoff is the author of the Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Too Bright to See, the Stonewall Award winner When Aidan Became a Brother, among other titles for young readers. While becoming a writer, he worked as a bookseller and school librarian. He lives in New York City, and hopes you’re having a nice day.
Andrea Tsurumi (they/them) is an author, illustrator, and cartoonist originally from New York who lives with their spouse and dog in Philadelphia. A gigantic text and image nerd, they studied sequential storytelling for an English BA at Harvard and an illustration MFA at the School of Visual Arts. While working in publishing for several years, they dove into their two big loves: indie comics and children’s books. Their first book, Accident! was an NPR Great Read and their second book, Crab Cake, won the Vermont Red Clover Book Award. When they’re not inventing croissant-based animals, they like reading about ordinary and ridiculous history.
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