Description

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In a garden outside a Kenyan schoolhouse, teachers and students are gathering their vegetables for soup. But all Kioni brought today were her troublesome goats. How can they contribute?

In a garden outside a Kenyan schoolhouse children are working together to harvest the vegetables they have grown and make them into a soup for everyone to share. But Kioni is having trouble: her herd of mischievous goats followed her to school today and they are trying to eat all the vegetables. The ensuing chaos caused by the goats is cleverly resolved by the children, making their vegetable soup very tasty while saving Kioni's four-legged intruders at the same time.

Using rollicking verse with echoes of "Mary had a Little Lamb," Alma Fullerton tells a lively story about communal projects and finding creative solutions that help everyone contribute. This lively story for young readers is graced with Alma's stunning primitive paper sculpture art - the first book she has chosen to illustrate herself.

About the Author

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Alma Fullerton was first known for her award-winning free-versenovels for juvenile and young-adult readers, including the Governor General'sAward-nominated Libertad. Sincethen, her picture books about children around the world have also won nationaland international awards, including a White Ravens Choice and a Bank StreetBest Book for A Good Trade, and a USBBY Outstanding International Bookfor When the Rain Comes. Most recently, No More Plastic! was anhonor book for the Green Earth Book Award and a finalist for both the OLAForest of Reading Blue Spruce Award and the SYRCA Shining Willow Award. Almalives in Prince Edward Island with her husband, her service dog, Gibson, andher own herd of mischievous goats.