This is a cute little book with bright and colorful illustrations about eating healthy and teaching people a lesson.

There are some kids who believe that carrots grow on trees. The start of the story is a bunch of kids in school listing the vegetables they don’t like. This causes an argument that carrots grow on trees and they find out in class that, no carrots grow in the ground. Then the main girl goes home and tells her mom so they elastic some carrots into a tree and invite the over to prove that carrots grow on trees. This book isn’t very well written. It reads like it was written by somebody in elementary school and if it was that’s great if not no. Not a book I would buy to add to our collection.

Neat little story featuring vegetables and how they grow, I think this starts to discussion of vegetables and how we source our food which is important to discuss. Cute pictures too!

This was a fun story to read. Loved the pictures. Definitely lots of humour in it. That made US Open the topic about where our vegetables come from.

The story is cute. It's easy to see the sibling relationship and most kids will probably be able to relate. I wasn't particularly thrilled with the illustrations. They aren't bad, but there's nothing about them that makes them stand out.

CARROTS DON'T GROW ON TREES by Rob Keeley is a children's story book focusing on a young girl named Lily who told her classmates carrots grew on trees but a fellow classmate Jordan, called out Lily's mistake. Lily is upset upon her return home, so her mother devises a plan to prove to Jordan that carrots do, in fact, grow on trees.

CARROTS DON'T GROW ON TREES is a quick read but I struggled with the 'lies' about the carrot tree, even though, in the end, Jordan discovered it was all a ruse. Lily's mother, in an effort, to shame Lily's classmate Jordan in retaliation for Jordan calling out Lily in class , ties carrots to a tree, thus enabling a false sense of right and wrong.

The images are elementary; the text is simple and easy but the presentation and ethical conundrum is worrisome in an age of fake news and lies.



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Lily insists that carrots grow on trees, but her classmates aren't so sure. Did she make a mistake? Where do carrots really grow?

I picked up this book thinking it would be a tale about how vegetables grow, but in fact it tackled a tough topic for kids to wrap their minds around. Truth and reality vs. "fake news" and misinformation. Especially in this day in age, teaching students to check their sources and if their information is factual is so important. You cannot always believe what you hear, and sometimes you can't always believe what you see. Lily learns this when her classmates tape carrots to a tree, teaching her that you can't always believe your eyes.

The cartoon style illustrations were cute but nothing spectacular. They were colorful and would keep a young reader looking at the pages. The text was simple for the most part, except for a couple of bigger words like "fraudulent, which a reader may need an adult to help them read and explain what the term means. It is a good book to be used in a social studies class, or for parents wanting to find a child-friendly way to teach something that is so broad and can be very convoluted.

I liked this book and I thought that the illustrations were delightful.

The plot was good but it was a little lacking for me but it did deal with the topic of a child being tricked and laughed at by others was done quite well as it does happen with them being picked on.

I liked how the mum helped in the end so that the little girl got her own but I did expect a little more and it would have been a nice touch if the teachers at school were involved too as that is generally where this kind of behaviour happens.

It is 3 stars from me for this one!

This is a Children's book. This book fell short for me. I felt the story line/plot was just ok. The pictures was not great for me. I just wanted more from this book. I understand what this book was trying to do, but I do not think it went there. I was kindly provided an e-copy of this book by the publisher (Troubador Publishing) or author (Rob Keeley) via NetGalley, so I can give an honest review about how I feel about this book. I want to send a big Thank you to them for that.