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48 pp.
| Little
| April, 2019
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TradeISBN 978-0-316-39282-2$17.99
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EbookISBN 978-0-316-39279-2
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PS
Illustrated by
Rilla Alexander.
A swarm of bees (dots of black and yellow in the stylized rubber-stamp and ink art) parallels an angry-looking boy throwing tomatoes at everyone around town. Chaos builds until a beekeeper captures the bees, now calm; and the boy's adult caretaker gives him a hug. The cumulative-mischief/chase/eventual-pasta-feast plot comes with a message about anger: "It can feel good to be angry. It can feel better to stop."
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K-3
Is Tomato a vegetable or a fruit? A kitchen's worth of produce wants to know. Following much pun-filled discussion (Artichoke: "Where's his heart?"), everyone turns to Old Man Produce (a wrinkled, prune-like edible) for the verdict. Hoffman takes this one-note joke impressively far, and the sumptuous art will have young readers hankering for a fruit (or is it vegetable?) salad.
40 pp.
| Kane/Miller
| March, 2016
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TradeISBN 978-1-61067-400-3$11.99
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K-3
Illustrated by
Kent Culotta.
Grandfather's backyard vegetable garden has produced a more-than-bountiful crop of tomatoes, so the grandparents and small grandson dance and romp from page to page distributing the excess to neighbors and friends all over town. The rhyming text is rather aimless, but the cartoony illustrations are sunny and lively, with juicy tomatoes on every page.
32 pp.
| Sea to Sea
| March, 2012
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LibraryISBN 978-1-59771-314-6$28.50
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4-6
Grow Your Own series.
With plenty of color photos of kids demonstrating the step-by-step instructions, these guides for beginners make gardening seem approachable and enjoyable. The easy-to-read text describes planting, care, and harvesting, as well as how to spot and solve problems such as pests and disease, over- or underwatering, and frost danger. Each book ends with a gardening calendar and related recipe. Websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Grow Your Own titles: Lettuce, Potatoes, Strawberries, and Tomatoes.
24 pp.
| QEB
| September, 2012
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LibraryISBN 978-1-60992-328-0$25.65
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K-3
What Grows in My Garden series.
These books provide a basic though uninspired introduction to how four familiar food plants grow. Each spread has clear color photos and a few sentences. Topics include what the plant's seeds look like, how the plant grows best, how to harvest the edible part, what kind of food can be prepared with the produce, and different varieties of the plant. Glos. Review covers these What Grows in My Garden titles: Apples Grow on Trees, Carrots Grow Under the Ground, Lettuce Grows on the Ground, and Tomatoes Grow on Vines.
32 pp.
| Heinemann
| August, 2011
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LibraryISBN 978-1-4329-5108-5$26.65
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K-3
Grow It Yourself series.
In this DIY series for outdoorsy kids, minimal texts explain how to grow flowers, catnip, and tomatoes. Cat Toy and Sandwich end with step-by-step instructions for making the title products. Butterfly Farm is less focused, jumping from descriptions of butterflies to information on flowers to planning and care of a garden. Attractive close-up photos will engage readers. Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Grow It Yourself titles: Grow Your Own Butterfly Garden, Grow Your Own Cat Toy, and Grow Your Own Sandwich.