![]() Where did the giant vegetables come from then? Wiesner waits until the last pages to deliver the punch line. ![]() In fact, she is forced to conclude that none of the enlarged specimen sightings are a result of her initial seedling launch. Artichokes advance on Anchorage." TV news channels announce that arugula has covered Ashtabula, which puzzles Holly, because arugula is not part of her experiment. A hiker in Montana finds giant turnips in the Rocky Mountains. On June 29, 1999, curious things start to happen all over America. She expects the plants to stay aloft for a few weeks, allowing her to study the effects of extraterrestrial conditions on their growth and development. About a month earlier, on May 11, 1999, young Holly Evans launches vegetable seedlings into the sky from her home in Ho-ho-kus, New Jersey-on seed flats with Acme weather balloons. This wacky Wiesner creation chronicles an astonishing cross-country phenomenon on June 29, 1999. If you liked David Wiesner's surrealistic 1992 Caldecott Medalist Tuesday, then Jwill send your spirits soaring like a frog on a flying lily pad. ![]()
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