Learn more about A sembrar sopa de verduras / Growing Vegetable Soup:
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publish Date: 4/10/2007
Dimensions: (in Inches) 5.25H x 5.25L x 0.75T
Age Range: 8 to 12
|In this Spanish-language, board-book edition, a father and child grow vegetables and then make them into a soup. Full color.|
From the Publisher:
"After planting, watering, and tending to their plants all season long, a loving father and his child harvest the produce from their garden in order to prepare an extra-special pot of soup filled with tomatoes, potatoes, corn, and more."
Lois Ehlert was encouraged to explore her creativity by her parents and eventually attended the Layton School of Art and the University of Wisconsin. Ehlert started illustrating books for children early in her career but, unhappy with their final production quality, she stopped and focused on graphic design work. Ehlert returned to the world of children's book illustration only after she felt that publishers had begun to pay more attention to design and production. Her book COLOR ZOO was named a Caldecott Honor Book in 1990.When Alma Flor Ada was a young girl, she was surrounded by stories: each day her grandmother and an uncle invented interesting tales to entertain her with, and at bedtime her father would spin fables he created just for her. Because Alma's grandmother thought the 3-year-old was ready to learn to read, she began teaching her by writing the names of flowers and plants in the dirt. Alma says that as she grew older, she remembered that experience and felt that there was a strong connection between the act of reading and nature's beauty--that's why her family could always find her reading in a tree or writing by a river. Since family storytelling was such a large part of her childhood, two of Alma's books, WHERE THE FLAME TREES BLOOM and UNDER THE ROYAL PALMS, are story collections based on her childhood memories. A fun fact: her book THE UNICORN OF THE WEST was based on a bedtime story her father told her.