Orem Library

A vibrant and sturdy word book featuring fruits and vegetables from around the world from Caldecott Honor—winning author-illustrator Lois Ehlert featuring upper- and lowercase letters for preschoolers just learning language. Apple to Zucchini, come take a look. Start eating your way through this alphabet book. Each turn of the page reveals a mouth-watering arrangement of foods: Indian corn, jalapeno, jicama, kumquat, kiwifruit and kohlrabi....

A family plants a vegetable garden and helps it grow to a rich harvest.

Several small worms use their varyign lengths to measure the vegetables in a garden.

Celebremos la llegada de la noche con este cuento relajante y encantador, ideal para que las plantas, ¡y también los humanos!, lo lean antes de irse a dormir. Illustrations and easy-to-read, rhyming text invite the reader to a community garden where potatoes close their eyes, cabbages nod their heads, and corn covers its ears to go to sleep.

Describes how to make a colorful, delicious vegetable soup. Includes recipe.

Superhero Veggieman, better known as Wedgieman, faces off against Bad Dude, an inventor whose Make-Things-Disappear Machine causes trouble on the playground.

When a mysterious vine appears in their carefully tended garden, the brother and sister patiently watch and wait to see what it becomes. Includes gardening activities and pumpkin recipes.

When a family leaves the house for an outing, the vegetables have a house party.

When a mysterious red orb appears one day, the vegetables are not sure what to make of it and they decide that it must be an alien tomato, but Gopher is not convinced.

When Lavinia the badger catches the culprit that has been raiding her vegetable garden, she agrees to let the frightened bunny go for the promise of a great reward and she is astonished by the musical magic that the coming night brings.