"Calling all budding gardeners! What would you like to grow today? Is it green beans, or peas? Corn or carrots? There's so much to learn in Lois Ehlert's colorful picture book about growing vegetables. First we collect the necessary tools, and don't forget the seeds. Then the magic happens: planting, weeding, harvesting, washing, chopping, cooking, and best of all--eating! There's even a recipe for vegetable soup! Ehlert's simple cut-paper-style illustrations...

When Snail's bucket home is turned over, a ladybug takes him on a journey through the vegetable garden, discovering delicious new foods while encountering new animals.

Everyone likes veggies, right? Wrong! When Principal Stoker decides that Ella Mentry School needs a vegetable garden, A.J. and his friends just want to plant junk food. But when gardening expert Miss Nichol comes to oversee the planting, things get totally out of control. What could possibly go wrong?

Squirrel teaches Little Groundhog how to plant and tend a vegetable garden.

After helping Strega Nona plant her vegetable garden just so, Big Anthony takes some extra seeds and sows another garden willy nilly, then must find a way to deal with the consequences.

Sophie lives in the city, and her vegetables come from a supermarket. Then she goes to visit her grandparents in the countryside - and soon discovers how much there is to learn about how things grow!

With seeds he saved from a squash they had for dinner last year, Benji plants and carefully tends a plant in their spring garden with the goal of growing a giant banana squash.

Derwood the goat has planted a garden and is prepared to defend it from all nibblers, including Tabitha the bunny, whom Derwood is convinced has designs on his growing vegetables; she teases him as the months go by, but after she helps him with the weeding the two become friends and share the feast.

A vegetable garden becomes the unlikely place where friendship, belief in one's dreams, and much more than vegetables grow.

Curious George grew the perfect carrot that helped save his neighbor's bunnies.