Have you ever tried to recolor cabbage and cook purple eggs? Or grow green leaves from cut carrots? Do you know what path the potato took before appearing in the company of beets and turnips? And do you know who is the boss in the soup?
"The Secret Life of Vegetables" by Alena Vodopyanova is a combination of all the most interesting and useful things in one saucepan... that is, a book. Cabbage reveals the secret of taste and health, a potato girl leafs through a family album, carrots go on vacation to Borschelona, and Cherry Holmes and Tomato Doctor Tomatson solve a crime. Telling mysterious and funny stories about vegetables from our kitchen, Alena Vodopyanova helps to see the interesting in ordinary and sometimes unloved products, and at the same time presents the reader with the basics of botany and chemistry.
And with this book, anyone can feel like a magician and a real scientist-researcher: at the end of each chapter, the reader will find an educational page with a variety of secrets, kitchen and laboratory experiments (which can be carried out by yourself or with the help of adults), riddles from the garden, and even a zucchini game.
A book by Alena Vodopyanova, intended for younger schoolchildren, is brilliantly illustrated by the young artist Ekaterina Krivich.
Recommended reader age: 6+
Author: Alena Vodopyanova
Artist: Krivich Ekaterina
Editor: Volcit Petr Mikhailovich
Year of release: 2019
Publisher: CompassGuide
Pages: 212
Cover type: Hardcover
Dimensions: 290x218x21 mm
ISBN: 978-5-00083-557-9