Alamosa Public Library

While her third-grade classmates are sprouting seeds in paper cups, Holly has a more ambitious, innovative science project in mind.

Illustrations and brief text reveal the wide variety of unmentionables sported by vegetables.

When a young girl demands "No more vegetables," her mother agrees as long as Ruthie helps in the vegetable garden.

A mother and child spend a snowy day together buying and preparing vegetables, assembling ingredients, and playing while their big pot of soup bubbles on the stove. Includes a recipe for "Snowy Day Vegetable Soup."

"Sam the Man is not a vegetable man. But when a school project has him paired up with the worst of all the vegetables -- the rutabaga-- he soon will learn that it's not half bad. And as he grows fond of his new little friend, Sam the Man will have to come up with plan on how to keep him happy before he rots!"--

An alphabetical tour of the world of fruits and vegetables, from apricot and artichoke to yam and zucchini. While teaching upper- and lowercase letters to preschoolers, Ehlert introduces fruits and vegetables from around the world. A glossary at the end provides interesting facts about each food

It's Halloween and Carrot is having a constume party, but which costume should Carrot wear?

It's that wonderful time of year again-the Yuletide Ice Cube Fair! It's a time of festivity and fun as Veggies gather to eat snow cones, slurp down slushies, and ice skate on the frozen pond. But the greatest part of all is the Ice Cube Carving Contest! The Veggies have been busy! They've carved Christmas feasts, trees, angels, and more. Each one is trying to outdo the other in an effort to win the grand prize. But the smallest of all these ice entries...

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

Determined to make Halloween a frightening night of the pumpkinheads, the pumpkins transform themselves into a variety of scary monsters and then head for town hoping to terrify everyone they meet.