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Who doesn't love a picture book that can grow old with a reader? Young readers will enjoy Michela Sorrentino's beautiful artwork in AN EDIBLE ALPHABET. Her collages combine paper and acrylic paint to create multilayered illustrations that add dimension to the text. Early readers will enjoy the labels on the illustrations and the alliterative titles like "Reliable Red Rooster" and "Tip Top Tasty Tomato".

Stronger readers can learn quite a bit about agriculture; I know that I did! Complex vocabulary words like ruminants, alevin, and pollination are sprinkled through the text and are explained well. Plus, I don't think I heard about kohlrabi until I was in my twenties, but it has its own chapter here.

This is a worthwile investment...the whole family will learn a lot!