Theres No Such Thing as Vegetables [Hardcover]

A hilarious new picture book that exposes vegetables for what they truly areleaves, roots, flowers, and stalksby National Book Award Finalist and Newbery Honor winner Kyle Lukoff, perfect for fans of the Our Universe series.

Chester plans to have a salad for lunch, but in order to do that, he'll need vegetables. So, off he goes to the community garden, except he quickly learns that he won't be dressing a salad anytime soon. Instead, the vegetables start dressinghimdown. According to them, vegetables don't exist!

I know what you are thinking: What the bell pepper? Vegetables are totally real! But here's the thing: Kale is just a leaf, broccoli is a flower, potatoes are roots, and celery...well, stalks. Thanks to a lively, sassy cast of talking veggies, Chester learns a valuable lesson about categories and how they shape our understanding of the world.

With a slyly informative text and illustrations that will crack readers up, the schooling inThere's No Such Thing As Vegetableswill be easy to digest and is a total treat.

Kyle Lukoffis the author ofDifferent Kinds of Fruit,Explosion at the Poem Factory, and many other books for young readers. His favorite vegetable is whichever one hes eating at the moment. Hes mildly allergic to figs, will never forget his first Concord grape, and loves thinking about how language creates categories. He climbs every tree he can and once got into a fight about whether a vegetable garden could have tomatoes in it.
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Andrea Tsurumiis the author and illustrator of the booksAccident!,Crab Cake, andIm On It, and they have illustrated many more, including Mr. Watsons Chickens and the Kondo & Kezumi series. They live with their spouse and carrot-loving dog in Philadelphia. Find out more at:
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