“I hate to be the one to tell you, but there’s no such thing as vegetables.”

Chester gets sent to the community garden to pick some vegetables for a lunchtime salad. Unfortunately, every time he thought he saw a vegetable, the food item quickly denied being a vegetable. When a frustrated Chester attempts to explain why they are vegetables, the produce quickly turn his arguments aside to explain exactly what they are: flowers, roots, leaves, stalks, and roots.

Science meets social constructed categories in this humorous word debate. The picture book is geared towards pre-school to mid elementary school readers and listeners. Please note, I have it on good authority that even though Charlie ends up with a sandwich instead of a salad, despite “vegetables” being hard to define- you still have to eat them!