Vegetable Dreams / Huerto sonado
Dawn Jeffers
(Reviewer - Rebecca Brown)
2006 Raven Tree Press
ISBN: 097419929X

A young girl yearns to grow her favorite vegetables & can't find anyone to help her.

Vegetable Dreams/ Huerto sonado is an enchanting tale of family, gardens, neighbors, friendship & growing food for the table.

With Claude Schneider's endearing, bright illustrations catch the heat & meditative quality of gardening in this bilingual story that unfolds in a dreamy gentleness. So much so that you too will start yearning to garden, to dig the soil, go to the seed store & tend the plants that come up.... & then eat them!

What are your favorite veggies?

About Raven Tree Press out of Green Bay, Wisconsin -- an independent publisher dedicated to offering amusing & informative bilingual stories written for the Accelerated Reader, with fine translators who capture modern idioms. Each of their titles is magically illustrated to accompany the English & Spanish texts, with a Glossary in the back.

More from Raven Tree Press:
Tito the Firefighter / Tito el Bombero
On The Banks of The Amazon / En las orillas del Amazonas
Yelly Kelly / Kelly, el Griton
Even More / Todavia Mas
Mason Moves Away / Mason Se Muda
(06/04/06)

Rebecca