The Ugly Vegetables
It’s easy to appreciate a garden exploding with colorful flowers and fragrances, but what do you do with a patch of ugly vegetables? Author/illustrator Grace Lin recalls such a garden in this charming and eloquent story.
The neighbors’ gardens look so much prettier and so much more inviting to the young gardener than the garden of “black-purple-green vines, fuzzy wrinkled leaves, prickly stems, and a few little yellow flowers” that she and her mother grow. Nevertheless, mother assures her that “these are better than flowers.” Come harvest time, everyone agrees as those ugly Chinese vegetables become the tastiest, most aromatic soup they have ever known. As the neighborhood comes together to share flowers and ugly vegetable soup, the young gardener learns that regardless of appearances, everything has its own beauty and purpose.
The Ugly Vegetables springs forth with the bright and cheerful colors of blooming flowers and bumpy, ugly vegetables. Grace Lin’s colorful, playful illustrations pour forth with abundant treasures. Complete with a guide to the Chinese pronunciation of the vegetables and the recipe for ugly vegetable soup! Try it . . . you’ll love it, too!
Lexile Measure: 390L
Mboga Mbaya Ni rahisi kuthamini bustani inayofurika kwa maua na harufu zenye rangi nyingi, lakini unafanya nini na kijani kibaya? Mwandishi na mchoraji picha Grace Lin anakumbuka bustani kama hiyo katika hadithi hii yenye kuvutia na yenye kusisimua. Bustani za majirani zinaonekana kuwa nzuri zaidi na zenye kuvutia zaidi kwa mtunza-bustani huyo mchanga kuliko bustani ya "mimea ya mizabibu ya rangi ya zambarau-nyeusi, majani yenye makunyanzi, shina zenye miiba, na maua machache ya manjano" ambayo yeye na mama yake wanakua. Hata hivyo, mama anamhakikishia kwamba <unk>hizi ni bora kuliko maua.<unk> Wakati wa kuvuna unapokuja, kila mtu anakubali wakati mboga hizo mbaya za Kichina zinapokuwa supu yenye ladha na harufu nzuri zaidi ambayo wamewahi kuona. Wakati jirani wanakutana pamoja kushiriki maua na supu mbaya ya mboga, mtunza bustani mchanga anajifunza kwamba bila kujali muonekano, kila kitu kina uzuri na kusudi lake mwenyewe. The Ugly Vegetables hutokea kwa rangi nyangavu na zenye furaha za maua yanayopanda na mboga zenye miiba na mbaya. Michoro ya Grace Lin yenye rangi nyingi na yenye kuchekesha ina hazina nyingi. Pamoja na mwongozo wa matamshi ya Kichina ya mboga na kichocheo cha supu ya mboga mbaya! Jaribu. . . Wewe pia utaipenda! Lens: Lens: Lens: Lens: Lens: Lens: Lens: Lens