Holly Evans is a young girl with an idea, vegetable seeds, and balloons. Holly plans to study the growth of vegetables once there are in outer space. Shortly after Holly launches the vegetable seeds nested inside balloons from her home town of Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, she is amazed at the upcoming events. Gigantic turnips are discovered in Montana, huge heads of lettuce float through the sky, cucumbers and lima beans float over towns across the country. Holly is ecstatic to see an enormous broccoli land in her backyard, knowing that her experiment was a huge success. It wasn’t until an arugula appears in Ashtabula that Holly realizes the extraordinary vegetables around the country did not come from her experiment. So if the giant peas floating in rivers and if the eggplants being exchanged and booming the economy aren’t from Holly’s experiment, whose vegetables were they? The answer is, of course, outer space. Due to a clumsy kitchen worker the entire food supply of the star cruiser Alula Borealis is sent down to Earth. So now that the aliens lost all of their vegetables, what is for dinner? =) This book was amazingly adorable! It is hard to describe how cute and clever it is without seeing the detailed illustrations of the giant vegetables and the aliens in their star cruiser. Great book!
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