This lovely picture book is set in rural Kenya where a group of children and their teachers are getting ready to make soup from vegetables they have grown in the school house garden. Kioni should be helping, but her goats are forever causing trouble, invading the vegetable patch and wanting to eat the ingredients for this communal meal. The collage-style illustrations work in playful conjunction with the simple text to prompt the reader to anticipate the unfolding action. The book concludes with a recipe and instructions for making pumpkin vegetable soup.