There’s No Such Thing as Vegetables

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By Kyle Lukoff & Andrea Tsurumi

Publisher Description

A hilarious new picture book that exposes vegetables for what they truly are—leaves, roots, flowers, and stalks—by 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 dressing him down. 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 in There's No Such Thing As Vegetables will be easy to digest and is a total treat.

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There’s No Such Thing as Vegetables Reviews

3.5

Fleet Sparrow

Created 5 months ago

CakeBasedLifeForm

Created 8 months ago

“A boy goes to the community garden to get some veggies for his salad. But instead, the vegetables tell him he's mistaken: there are no such thing as vegetables. There are flowers, stems, roots, fruits, and much more, but no vegetables. This gets the boy thinking about other social constructs. This is much better as a thought experiment than as a story. Social constructs are really fun to think about, and this book emphasizes the way that even something as simple as the category "vegetable" might not be what it seems. However, the beginning is slow, the explanations take too long to come, and the ending isn't very satisfying. It's a really fun concept, just not a good plot.”

Rachel Stevens

Created about 1 year ago

Taylor Coonelly

Created about 1 year ago

“Kyle Lukoff's There's No Such Thing As Vegetables is a humorous look at how categories are human-made, and shape our understanding of the world around us. Our main character Chester is tasked with finding vegetables at the local garden so his mom can make salads for lunch. As he searches around the garden, he is met with various plants he considers vegetables and is forced to reconcile is idea of vegetables with what the plants actually are - for example, broccoli is a flower, and potatoes are roots. Chester cannot come up with the definition of what is a vegetable, and is forced to leave the garden empty-handed. With talking plants and fruit/vegetable puns, Lukoff has created an imaginative story that tackles the larger idea of categorization. In both the author's note and the description, he discusses on categories that people believe are inherent are actually created by humans and can often be a source of misinformation and bias. He connects the idea of social constructs with the idea of vegetables and fruit, a common distinction that causes confusion. While I think that Lukoff was able to discuss the idea of categories/social constructs in a easier understood way, I think that this idea would be lost on an elementary and perhaps even a middle grade audience. I think that conversations about what are vegetables or not would be had and understood, but I feel like the deeper message of the book would be lost on the audience Lukoff intended to write for. The illustrations are cute, with personified vegetables, and might draw a student in based on the cover. I could see this book being used in a lesson for older middle grade students, perhaps in taking about social ideas, but this book would not be my first recommendation in this category.”

gelflingreads

Created about 1 year ago

About Kyle Lukoff

Kyle Lukoff is the author of the Newbery Honor-winning, National Book Award finalist, Too Bright to See, the Stonewall Award winner When Aidan Became a Brother, among other titles for young readers. While becoming a writer, he worked as a bookseller and school librarian. He lives in Philadelphia, and hopes you're having a nice day.
kylelukoff.com

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Andrea Tsurumi

Andrea Tsurumi (they/them) is an author, illustrator and cartoonist originally from New York who now lives with their spouse and dog in Philadelphia. A gigantic text and image nerd, they studied sequential storytelling for an English BA at Harvard and an illustration MFA at the School of Visual Arts. While working in publishing for several years, they dove into their two big loves: indie comics and children’s books. Their first book, Accident! was an NPR Great Read and their second book, Crab Cake, won the Vermont Red Clover Book Award. When they're not inventing croissant-based animals, they like reading about ordinary and ridiculous history.
andreatsurumi.com