The Ugly Vegetables birding Carlos asks his mom for

Carlos asks his mom for help in learning to write his name

mother assures her that "these are better than flowers

Older brother Bob was hardworking and practical

and her paintings bring color to the clay walls inside her family's one-room hut

The Ugly Vegetables birding Carlos asks his mom forCelebrating the 20th Anniversary of The Ugly Vegetables ! By: Grace Lin It's easy to appreciate a garden exploding with colorful flowers and fragrances, but what do you do with a patch of ugly vegetables? Author illustrator Grace Lin recalls such a garden in this charming and eloquent story. The neighbors' gardens look so much prettier and so much more inviting to the young gardener than the garden of "black purple green vines, fuzzy wrinkled leaves,