Give Peas a Chance! Spreading Food Literacy One Book at a Time
Abstract
Sylvia Spivens hates spinach. Her parents try coaxing her to sample some. They extol the green leafy vegetable’s nutritional benefits. But she just won’t eat it.
Then Sylvia is assigned to sow spinach seeds for her school’s garden. Grow the vegetable she detests? No way! She tries trading seeds with her classmates. No luck: Sylvia is stuck. After planting, watering, and waiting (and waiting, and WAITING), Sylvia finally sees the spinach poking out of the soil. She waits some more, nibbles a leaf and—guess what?—she LIKES it!
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/cal.13n1.10
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