Vegetable Dream/Huerto Sonado

Dawn Jeffers
Raven Tree Press (2006)
ISBN 097419929X
Reviewed by Susan Langford for Reader Views (5/06)

The author’s main point of the book is about hard work and determination with an up lifting tale of dreams fulfilled. I think the Dawn Jeffers was very successful with this story. The story is well written and easy to read to children and easy for them to understand.

I read the story to my nieces that are 4, 3 and 3 and they really enjoyed it. They have a very close relationship with my father and he has a garden that they help him with so when I read about the tomatoes in the garden they associated very well and understood. My nieces and I enjoyed the story and it was easy to read, not too long and not too short. Great pictures for me, but I think that Sara, the four year old, would have liked for the pictures to be more like photographs. She thought a child had colored the pictures.

I think the book would be great for any office where families have to wait or in libraries, because both Hispanics and English speaking family can use it.

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