Eric Ode

"Eric Ode's playful exploration of the active nature of poems, and how they can shape and transform our world combines with exquisite, energetic illustrations by Jieting Chen." --Amazon.com.

"Grandfather's garden is popping with peas. It's buzzing with blossoms and bumbly bees. It's bursting with berries and beans and potatoes and tall, twining vines of too many tomatoes. Eric Ode's rollicking, rhyming garden story combined with Kent Culotta's exuberant illustrations will have readers, tapping their toes (and digging their dirt, and sowing their seeds) as they count the too-many tomatoes overgrowing the garden, the building, the block...

"On the road, and on their way, here they come to save the day. Shining brightly; red, green, blue. Hurry now! There's work to do!"--