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 Diana Pedreira

www.flamingoedicoes.com

Children's Literature from Lisbon to the World…

Maria and her father
Rua de Cascais, 57, Alcântara – 1300-260 Lisbon, Portugal

make a vegetable garden

National Ensemble, cj. 205 and 206, Avenida Paulista 2073,
Edifício Horsa 1, CEP 01311-300 São Paulo, Brazil

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illustrations
mail: geral@flamingoedicoes.com Maria Teresa Rangel
Title: Maria and her father make a vegetable garden

Publisher: Filipa Cantanhede

Editorial Coordinator: Bruno Cantanhede

Graphic composition: Marco Martins

Cover: XXXXXXX
Illustrations: Maria Teresa Rangel
Review: Diana Pedreira
Printing and finishing:
Break Media Print

1st edition: XXXXXXX, 2019

ISBN: XXXXXXX

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This book belongs to
 Today,
Maria and
her father
are going to
make a
vegetable
garden.
So, they woke up very early in the morning to go to
the market and now they are in the middle of the
crowd squeezing between booths, tents and stalls full
of things.
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- Daddy, daddy! - says Maria A little further away, a space with clucking hens.
Just beyond that, a few yellow chicks cackling and
enthusiastically, pulling her father's hand running over each other.
-Look... bunnies!...
So tiny!... Then ducks and -
Imagine yourself - a
Dad and Maria approach to
gentleman with
a space where there are
several little rabbits all a chubby turkey
curled up and sleeping. on his back
for sale!

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 Maria is very excited and jumps from one Finally they manage to get through
side to the other. the animal zone and reach the plant
area.
- Careful Maria,-
don't go away! -
says Dad with a
smile as he watches her
astonished
Dad picks up
Maria on his
running from a
back so that
new thing she can see better
to another. over the the stalls.

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 -- Carrots! - shouts Maria
- So what do you want to plant in your enthusiastically - And beans! I
vegetable garden? - he asks as they both want lots of beans for for my
look at trays with small plants. soup!
Dad explains that they are called
nursery trays... but Maria finds it a very
complicated name for little pieces of Maria loves eating
soil with plants! bean soup
and dreams
with the day
that all soups can
have beans… every single day!

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 - Very well - says Dad - Carrots and
Maria frowns her nose.
beans. Anything else?
Maria is not sure.

- How about radishes? - No tomatoes!

We could plant little radish
seeds, what do you think? -
suggests her father - And
I don't like them!
maybe some tomatoes?...
And lettuce?

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 Maria doesn't
looks very
confident.

- But I like them - argues

Dad - Don't you want to
plant some tomatoes for - Hmm...
me to eat in the salad? I don't know...
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 Maria is super proud of the
purchases they have made and
carefully takes
one of the smallest bags.

After spending some time

choosing, they took a variety of
baby plants and seeds ready to
be planted into the soil.
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 When they get home, - Your nose is black! - says
Maria laughing and pointing
it's time to prepare the at her father.
vegetable garden for Maria and Dad

planting. mix the

soil in the box
- And you look like a little girl warrior!
that her father already
- replies Dad,
prepared in while sneakily makes
the garden two traces of land
and they end up on each cheek.
dirty and laughing.

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 After a whole morning of work and a lot of dirt, everything
is ready for them to start planting. But, now it's Maria eats in a minute and without
lunch time. And then it's nap time... complaining, thinking about going to the
vegetable garden right away.
- But I want to But Dad has other ideas.

plant my own
plants... - Nap time, Maria! The
- says Maria rest of the vegetable
pouting. garden is for later!
Maria tries to
insist, but her
father has
Maria goes to bed, sulking.
already decided.
- Now, it's time
to go and eat.
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 A few hours - Here I am! Now, we can go
and plant my vegetable garden!

later - shouts Maria

entering in the l i v i n g
room.

I've even brought

my hat to protect
my head of a sun
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 Once everything was settled and Maria and her father
properly equipped, they finally went to finish
the plantation.
- Oh Maria! But you are - They are so beautiful!... - says Maria admiring the baby carrots.

barefoot!... - Do you think they will like staying in

my vegetable garden?

Maria looks surprised at her feet

surprised and then laughs.

She was so excited that she even

forgot her shoes!

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Dad is pretty sure they will.
Then courgettes, cabbages
Slowly, step by step,
and tomatoes.
they planted everything
they have bought.
peppers,
lettuces
Maria counts with her and turnips.
fingers:

- Beans,
Whew!
carrots and

radishes. There are so many

things that she
thinks she's going to
forget everything!
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- And now? - The tomatoes are
- asks Maria, going to be a
without problem...

knowing what
to do next. - thinks Maria
to herself.

But, who knows, maybe

Dad made a mistake
- Now we have to wait. - says Dad - We're going to buying tomatoes and
water them every day and we'll remove the weeds... instead of
and you'll see that in no time you'll have a bunch of
vegetables ready to eat! tomatoes come out strawberries,
she wishes in silence.

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Colour here a drawing or paste a photo of your vegetable garden.
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