You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Vegetables! (You Wouldn't Want to Live Without…)

by Alex Woolf, David Antram (Illustrations)

Vegetables provide us with essential vitamins and minerals that make our bodies healthier and stop us from getting sick. This series takes readers (Ages 8-12) on a historical journey, examining how people coped in the past and how they developed ingenious ways to make life safer and less unpleasant. Each book features full-color cartoon-style illustrations and hilarious speech bubbles to heighten interest, making the series attractive even to reluctant readers.When someone mentions spinach, broccoli or kale, do you think YUCK? Why do we need these foods and what would the world be like without them? Much better, right? Wrong! Vegetables are also used to make things like dyes, lotions and adhesives. Learn how vegetables are grown and cultivated, and the often inspired innovations made with such humble foodstuffs as the potato and the carrot.

Genres: Childrens, History, Picture Books, Nonfiction, Science

34 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2016

About the author

Alex Woolf is a prolific, award-winning author of books for adults and children. In his non-fiction he has written on subjects as diverse as sharks, robots, asteroids, flying reptiles and chocolate. His novels span a range of genres, including crime, mystery, science fiction, historical fiction, steampunk and horror.

Alex is a regular author for Fiction Express, online publishers of interactive stories for schools. Fiction Express is read by more than 150,000 students from 20 countries. Two of his stories have won reader awards. In 2021, he won the prestigious ASE award for his non-fiction book Think Like a Scientist. His horror novel, Soul Shadows, was shortlisted for the Falkirk Red Book Award. Bestselling crime author Peter James described his novel Aldo Moon as “a real delight, witty, ghostly and at times deliciously ghastly”.

Reviews

[Abraham Ray · Rating 5 out of 5]

great book on vegetables for children! Lots of great information on edible vegetation!

[Critterbee❇ · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a cute, funny, fact filled tribute to the importance of vegetables! A wonderfully fun read, with interesting historical facts and engaging illustrations.

[Susan · Rating 5 out of 5]

A primer on the history of vegetables and a lesson about what a vegetable is and is not. You would be surprised by what is not actually a vegetable!

[Koravat(Ing) Vidhayapat · Rating 5 out of 5]

I licke vegable