vegetables

Provides information about vegetables, explaining what they are, how they are grown, how they are used, and their role in a healthy diet.

In weekly trips to the farmers' market with his father, a boy learns about seasonal fruits and vegetables, and about patience.

Explores how vegetables grow in different environments and how different kinds of plant roots, stems, leaves, and flowers are used for food; and shows how to grow vegetables from seeds.

Explores the origins, history, and use of one hundred vegetables; arranged alphabetically by common name.

Everyone in Eerie, Indiana loves the new vegetables the local farm is growing, but when people start growing leaves and turning green, Marshall and his friend know that they have to do something before everyone in town turns into a plant.

A little girl complains about all the vegetables and nutritious things her father makes her eat.

Discusses vegetables as one of the five groups on the food pyramid, explains where vegetables come from, how they are eaten, what they look like, how they taste, and why they are healthy, and suggests vegetables for every meal.