RAINBOW STEW by Cathryn Falwell.  Lee & Low Books, New York: 2013. 32p.
ISBN: 978-1-60060-847-6 hc.$17.95    Gr. PreS-Gr.1    E PIC

While visiting Grandpa, the kids ask to go outside in the rain and Grandpa must come up with a plan to keep them busy.  So they go out to the garden and find some colors for his famous Rainbow Stew.  Engaging rhymes and bright colors work together to bring the reader into Grandpa's garden, where green kale and spinach, purple cabbage and eggplant, red radishes and tomatoes, orange carrots are ready for the picking.  After gathering the different vegetables together, they peel,
slice, chop, and dice everything for the stew pot.  Then they all read as they wait for the Rainbow Stew to be ready for lunch.  Of course it is yummy!  Also in the back of the book there is a recipe to
make Rainbow stew that I will be trying! 
Mary Kashorek, Librarian Assistant, Spies Public Library