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Growing Vegetable Soup
by
Lois Ehlert
“A fresh presentation of the gardening cycle with a joyful conclusion, and the added attraction of an easy and tasty recipe for vegetable soup on the flyleaf.”--School Library Journal
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
March 15th 1987
by Harcourt Children's Books
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Characters: Dad and child
Point of View: First Person from the child
Setting: Garden
Lexile level: 140 L Primary Grades
Genre: Picture Book
Plot:In the beginning, a child mentions, "Dad says we are going to grow vegetable soup." As a result, the boy mentions that they have the necessary tools and seeds. After planting and watering the seeds, the child explains that the warm sun will make them grow. Meanwhile, they needs to continue watering and weeding the vegetables before picking or digging the...more
Point of View: First Person from the child
Setting: Garden
Lexile level: 140 L Primary Grades
Genre: Picture Book
Plot:In the beginning, a child mentions, "Dad says we are going to grow vegetable soup." As a result, the boy mentions that they have the necessary tools and seeds. After planting and watering the seeds, the child explains that the warm sun will make them grow. Meanwhile, they needs to continue watering and weeding the vegetables before picking or digging the...more
Dec 01, 2011
Sheryl
rated it
5 of 5 stars
·
review of another edition
Recommends it for:
children in kindergarten
Recommended to Sheryl by:
i saw it in a book order
it's one of my favorites. not just because for nostalgia reasons, but even before, as a five year old, i remember i really liked, and still do, the colors and the art work presented in the book. it's like cut-outs of paper, yet it's true to the real thing. i liked how the tools and vegetables on the page have labels, aside from the large text of the actual story. i mean the illustrator/author even labels the "worm" found in the broccoli. how's that for organically grown food. no pesticides. ther...more
Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert explains the process of growing vegetables, starting from seeds all the way to making a pot of soup. A child gathers tools, plants seeds and sprouts, then watches their growth. When the vegetables are ripe, they get picked and pulled, then cut up and cooked into soup. A recipe is included to make vegetable soup at the end of the book.
As someone who grew up on a farm with a huge garden, I love that this book introduces the experience of vegetable gardening to...more
As someone who grew up on a farm with a huge garden, I love that this book introduces the experience of vegetable gardening to...more
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Apr 23, 2012
Shanna Gonzalez
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
children-00-04
This simple story introduces children to the basic growing cycle of garden vegetables. It opens with a child narrator stating, "Dad says we're going to grow vegetable soup." The narrator then explains in simple terms how the family goes about cultivating their vegetables, from planting to harvest. Ehlert illustrates each step with her characteristic collage-style art, more abstract than some of her other work. This is a great introduction to the joy of gardening, and the fact that this garden is...more
The labels throughout this story would make for a great introduction to labeling. The children can see how helpful the labels are then begin applying their own. There are also some words on the labels that could strike up a vocabulary curiosity. The bright colors in the pictures make it fun and the large print makes it a good read aloud story. It could also be used as a way to test students' knowledge on which vegetables grow above ground, which vegetables grow below ground, and which parts of t...more
Growing vegetable soup is an adorable book about growing all of the vegetables one would need to make a delicious vegetable stew. Each page talks about the growing process and has big bold pictures so young children can follow along. The tools required to grow vegetables are all in this book, so students who grew up in town can learn about something that they otherwise would never have been exposed to. It is also labeled which is nice so children can pick the book up on their own and instead of...more
Many of my students do not know where their food originates. This book helps kids make the connection between the garden and the table. In the story the father announces to his family that they are going to "grow vegetable soup." The author then describes how the family raises a vegetable garden to make "the best soup ever." A recipe for the tasty soup is also included in the book. Some of my student begged me to make a copy of it to take home. I don't know how many families will actually make i...more
I like this book a lot because it shows a family growing several vegetables needed to make vegetable soup. It even has a recipe for vegetable soup in the back. I think this would be great of a plant lesson. If possible it wold be really awesome to have the class split up into groups and each grow a vegetable. Then, whether the plants grew well or not the class could get the ingredients and make vegetable soup to try.
Grade: 2nd- life cycle of plants, 5th- an object is the sum of its parts: find...more
Grade: 2nd- life cycle of plants, 5th- an object is the sum of its parts: find...more
Growing vegetable soup is a good book for children to understand the process that the it takes to harvest. Some plants are planted by their seed and others are planted by their sprouts. It talks about how the plants need sun and water to grow. When the time for harvest came you pick the vegetables and you wash them and cut them and that how you make a vegetable soup.
Extension- Each can get a sprout and a seed and watch it grow and record its growth difference each day.
Extension- Each can get a sprout and a seed and watch it grow and record its growth difference each day.
This is a book that teaches vocabulary picture words to children. Each picture in the book is accompanied by the word telling what it is. Personally I do not like the illustrators depiction. I believe the pictures were done in watercolor in an abstract fashion. For children, particularly special needs children the pictures are a bit hard to identify. However, because each picture is labeled, it helps children learn to read words which is why I gave the book three stars.
I actually read a Red Wagon 2004 very large board book edition of this book.
I love the idea of this: watching the evolution of planting seeds for vegetables to picking or digging out the vegetables, and making the soup with them, and a recipe is even included in the back of the book.
I always loved all but a very few vegetables but I could see parents and other adults using this book (along with the activities it depicts) with toddlers and preschoolers to encourage them to eat vegetables.
I alway...more
I love the idea of this: watching the evolution of planting seeds for vegetables to picking or digging out the vegetables, and making the soup with them, and a recipe is even included in the back of the book.
I always loved all but a very few vegetables but I could see parents and other adults using this book (along with the activities it depicts) with toddlers and preschoolers to encourage them to eat vegetables.
I alway...more
I like Ehlert's illustrations and the way she show the tools. I think Planting a Rainbow is a little more impressive visually and I have some felt flowers so children can make a picture for me after that story, but this seemed a little bit more appropriate for a fall garden/harvest story time for the city's farm/garden/harvest/healthy eating week.
Jul 16, 2012
Lindsay
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
children,
cooking,
growing,
plants,
spring,
seeds,
story-time,
spanish,
vegetables,
food,
eating,
garden,
picture-book
A Sembrar Sopa de Verduras, the Spanish version of Growing Vegetable Soup is a perfect story to use for a Spanish or bilingual story time program about spring/growing things. The book takes children through the plant cycle in a way that is relevant to them--a father and son plant seeds, water their plants, and watch them grow until they are ready to be picked and cooked for some yummy soup! This is also a good story to use for garden themes or to teach children about how food grows.
Subjects
Vegetable gardening -- Juvenile fiction.
Soups -- Juvenile fiction.
Together, a father and child share the joys of planting, watering, and watching seeds grow. Now available for the first time as a lap-sized board book, this beloved Lois Ehlert story includes a mouthwatering vegetable soup recipe.
This is also available as a BIG book. Great for Storytime.
Vegetable gardening -- Juvenile fiction.
Soups -- Juvenile fiction.
Together, a father and child share the joys of planting, watering, and watching seeds grow. Now available for the first time as a lap-sized board book, this beloved Lois Ehlert story includes a mouthwatering vegetable soup recipe.
This is also available as a BIG book. Great for Storytime.
Nice, clear illustrations and large text make this book great for preschoolers. Growing Vegetable Soup explains the process of growing vegetables from seeds all the way to making a pot of soup. It's a great story of how things happen, which especially helps children who might not know where their food comes from. Could be paired with lots of hands-on activities.
I really like how this book is set up. It has really abstract and simple pictures, but all of the parts of the pictures are labeled. I have never seen that in another book. Since it talks about plants and seeds, it labels the seeds, so that the reader can tell what is what. It has large print and is very easy to read, so it is great for younger children.
Did you know that you can grow a soup? This story shows how a father and child plant the vegetables, care for them, harvest them, and then make a delicious vegetable soup. Neon-bright colors in chunky cut shapes grab our attention. Small black text naming each item provides extra information for those children starting to sound out letters.
Oct 10, 2012
Kelly Whelchel
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Shelves:
science,
science-literature,
science-ece3606,
ece-3601,
vegetable,
plant-growth,
garden,
grade-1-2
Science Grade 1/2 Fiction/parts non-fiction at the end Topic: Plant-growth (vegetable)
Use this book to teach how to make vegetable soup from start to finish. If possible have the class build a garden with the different types of vegetables. Use this book over the course of a week, dissecting the book. At the end of the week, the class can make their very own vegetable soup to share as a class.
Use this book to teach how to make vegetable soup from start to finish. If possible have the class build a garden with the different types of vegetables. Use this book over the course of a week, dissecting the book. At the end of the week, the class can make their very own vegetable soup to share as a class.
Growing Vegetable Soup is a book about everything, including ingredients and time, that goes into making soup. This book would be useful and interactive in a preschool or kindergarten classroom. The pictures are large and simple. The text is also simple and would be easy to understand. I personally enjoyed the simplicity of the book.
In used this book with a large prop in my kindergarten placement. The kids really enjoyed the pictures as they are extremely colorful. It allows the chance to introduce sequencing and how vegetables are grown. Kids can also be planting something themselves to relate it back to that.
This is such a cute book! It incorporate language arts, social studies and math. The social studies concept addressed is the use of natural resources. Math is involved with the measurements for the recipe. It would be great to have students make the soup after reading it!
This fantastic and boldly illustrated collage story is a classic as far as gardening books go. It takes the child step by step from the beginnings of the planting season, to the detailed process of weeding to then finally enjoying the fruits of ones labour.
Simple, flat, cut-paper illustrations in bright colors tell the story of growing the vegetables to make soup. The huge font of the story and the tiny font of the labels make this great for either group readaloud or one-on-one sharing and discussing.
I love the Lois Ehlert books. It really helps kids identify foods even if they may not eat or like them. We can't wait to start our garden again. This book helps remind kids where their food comes from starting with seeds to the table.
This book could actually be used to teach math, science, and social studies. In reference to social studies, you could incorporate the idea of natural resources while reading this book. You could make vegetable soup. Cute book
4.75 stars - love it!
old book - new board book edition - really enjoyed it, and totally in line with my current urge to plant and grow! (spring joy, here we come...the boys and i are ready to get our hands in the dirt!!(
old book - new board book edition - really enjoyed it, and totally in line with my current urge to plant and grow! (spring joy, here we come...the boys and i are ready to get our hands in the dirt!!(
This book explains how to plant your vegetables, and what to plant, in order to make vegetable soup. This would be perfect to read in the spring. The text is really big. I like how everything in the book is labeled.
Great pictures. This book teaches young children to add illustrations to their writing. I actually read this book during a writing lesson and the kids loved the illustrations and labeling their own illustration.
Pretty basic book about growing vegetables for soup. Super bright illustrations and everything is labeled (gardening tools and vegetables) for easy explanation. Recipe for vegetable soup is included at the end.
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Living/Non-Living, Plants, Characteristics and needs of living things, observes using senses, uses tools to measure.
Oct 19, 2012 03:01pm