By Gail Gibbons
A bright, clearly labeled nonfiction tour of vegetables, which part of the plant each one is, how they're grown on farms and in gardens, and how they get from the dirt to your plate.
This is a straight-ahead information book that sorts every vegetable your child knows into groups by which part of the plant you actually eat: leaves like lettuce, roots like carrots, seeds like peas, bulbs like onions, flowers like broccoli, fruits like tomatoes, and stems like celery. Then it shows how vegetables are grown, on big farms and in backyard gardens, planted from seeds and seedlings, watered and weeded and harvested, and how they travel to markets and kitchens. There are labeled diagrams on nearly every page and a handful of facts and simple growing tips at the back. No story, no characters, just clear answers to the question of where the food on the plate comes from.
It answers the exact questions a garden-loving child starts asking once they've watched something grow: what part of this is the plant, and how did it get here? Gail Gibbons lays it out with the plain, well-labeled clarity she's known for, so it works as a read-aloud for a five-year-old and a solo fact book for a new reader who wants to look things up. It turns a trip to the grocery store or the garden bed into something your child can narrate.