Publisher Annotation: What’s that wedged in a crack in the ground, small and hard and wrinkly and brown? A bean seed! Soon it develops roots and leaves. And what’s that on the leaf? An egg! The egg hatches a caterpillar, and the caterpillar eats the leaves, getting bigger and bigger until it forms a chrysalis. Meanwhile, the plant is growing, too: it develops flowers, then bean pods, as it reaches up toward the sun. Side by side, plant and insect...

Organized by course and main ingredient, this collection of recipes includes American and ethnic dishes, including smoky black bean burritos, pesto pasta with cranberry beans, and spicy vegetable couscous.

Determined to go down the super slide at the community pool, Cool Bean must summon up his courage and face his fears to do something totally cool.