June 29, 1999

With all Wiesner books, or with most, at least, there is some kind of surprise that he holds until the end. It's like getting to the end of a poker game when everyone shows their cards and your opponent has the highest possible cards. The plot is this: Holly, for her science experiment, sends

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vegetable seedlings aloft with balloons. Weeks later, giant vegetables float to earth. Holly thinks that she's responsible until on the news, she hears that arugula has just been seen floating down from the sky. Holly didn't use arugula in her experiment, so now she knows that there's something else responsible for the giant vegetables. But what . . . . ? And that is the surprise ending! Like always, Wiesner's excellent watercolors give the reader plenty to look at as they page through. It's absolutely delightful reading/looking at pictures. Plus, the idea of giant mystery vegetables! Wonderful! My favorite illustration feature peas in the pod being investigated by a flock of sheep. Very hesitantly, one of the sheep took a very tentative lick of the pea pod. Recommended for purchase for all collections!

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This book is about a woman who does an experiment to see what space does to vegetables. A month later huge vegetables are falling back to the earth. They were not the ones the woman, Holly, had planted. Extraterrials had their vegetables swaped by accident. This book is a fun read for little

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children, and I enjoyed it also.

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Holly Evans' science experiment sent growing vegetables up into the sky and a few weeks later enormous veggies floated down, but not all of them are ones that Holly Evans sent up. Beautiful, detailed illustrations complete with single spread, double page spread, and paneled pages. Story is equally

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as whimsical as the story. I'm very fond of the idea that it's a little girl doing the science experiments, but the aliens at the end are a little over the top for me. Sharable up to reading time with 3rd graders.

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After Holly’s science experiment sends seedlings out into the ionosphere, amazing things happen on June 29, 1999. Vegetables seem to grow out of everything. Where will they end up next?

This book was exciting. It will have the kids guessing where the vegetables will do next. It also had great

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pictures.

You could grow a couple of different vegetable plant and let the children take care of them while they grow. You could introduce all the vegetables in the story and have taste test.

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A young scientist sends vegetables into outerspace. Several weeks later giant vegetables fall onto earth...but they are not the same ones she sent.

David Weisner tells a tale of an ambitious young lady who decides to send a bunch of seed experiments into the ionosphere. A month later the world sees the (supposed) results of her experiments in the form of huge vegetables landing (or not in the case of some bouyant red peppers) all over the

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world. She would be happy with the result, except there are some stray arugula as well as a few other vegetable s she had nothing to do with. Turns out there is an alien restaurant orbiting our small planet who has lost a bunch of vegetables and are surprised to receive a few bunches of tiny vegetables instead.

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A girl's science experiment gone wrong, or vegetables from outer space? Typical of Wiesner, the illustrations are rich with detail. This could easily be a wordless book, although the text provides details such as people and place names.

Holly Evans launches vegetable seedlings into the sky on May11,1999. A few days later Holly goes to school and tells her class what she has done and they are all amazed. Holly believes that her seedlings will stay aloft a few weeks before returning to earth. On June 29, huge vegetable begin landing

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all over the world. All over the counrty, the skies fill with vegetables. Lima beans loom over Levittown and Parsnips pass by Providence. Holly saw what was happening on the new but was confused because her experiment did not involve all the places being named. Holly concluded that the giant vegetables that were taking over the country were not a result of her experiment so she wondered whose vegetables were they. The book concludes with the Arcturian starcruiser. An assistant fry cook had an accident and all of their vegetables began heading towards Earth.

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This book is about a girl named Carline who does an experiment and sends plant seedlings into the sky. On June 29, 1999 vegtables start to fall from the sky and Caroline is amazed. She thinks that the vegtables must be from her experiment. Soon she realizes that all of the giant vegtables are none

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of the kind she launched into the sky. What really happened was that a ship of aliens were passing Earth and accidently dropped vegtables into outerspace and they fell to Earth.

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This book is about a girl, Holly, who is doing a science experiment by sending seeds into space by balloon. Shortly after, giant fruits and vegetables fall from the sky! Holly starts noticing that there are some fruits and vegetables that are falling from the sky that were not the ones she sent

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into the air. This would be a good book to get the kids to guess where the big fruits and vegetables came from and where Holly's went. The end of the book is cute and it even caught me off guard! Very cute!

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Red peppers. I always knew they were the flightiest of vegetables. And this book proves it. When giant vegetables mysteriously float down to Earth's surface, one little girl wonders if her science project has gone astonishingly awry.
Hilarious artwork, and an entirely convincing broccoli tree

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house. Like the author's other books.the wonderfully realistic style of he art contrasts so well with the hilarious oddness of the subject.

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This story is about a little girl who performs a vegetable experiment and then it gets out of control. As she wonders why vegetables are not floating around the world and growing larger than ever before, she thinks maybe it was not her fault. It is in the end that we find out that a group of aliens

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let their food supply slip away to earth and that is where all the vegetables came from!

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This book is really cool. A young future scientist has a great idea for her science experiment. She wants to grow vegetables in the sky. The next thing you know, huge vegetables fill the sky while people on earth begin to wonder what is going on. Alliteration is used to drive the annunciation.

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Cucumbers circle Kalamazoo. Lima beans loom over Levitown. Broccoli lands with a Big Bounce in Holly's Backyard. Holly thought her experiment had worked - but it was something else that caused all of these huge vegetables to appear seemingly out of nowhere.

Every page is a gorgeous double page spread of illustrations. The vegetables are drawn with such great detail that it is difficult to read this book and not get hungry. And, coincidentally or not, June 29th, 1999, and every other date used throughout this book lands on a Tuesday.

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This book is about a girl named Holly who is doing a science experiment by sending seeds into space by balloon. They all look like hot air balloons Shortly after, giant fruits and vegetables fall from the sky. She starts noticing that there are some fruits and vegetables that are falling from the

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sky that were not the ones she sent into the air and she was wondering what was going on that could be making this happen. Come to figure out, it was the aliens that did it. All of the vegetables had fallen to Earth. This book was very neat and the children that I read it to for my read aloud seemed to love it. They thought it was very interesting.

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The illustrations in this book are fascinating. It begins as a little girl Holly tells her classmates about her science project where she will launch vegetable seedlings into the sky. Shortly after, towns around the world are being filled with giant vegetables such as broccoli, turnips, avocado and

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more. This book would be a great read-aloud for kids under third grade.

Holly is baffled because she is confused by everything that is happening. In teaching this book, I would definitely draw students attention to the front cover and have them look carefully and predict based on the picture and title. As I was reading, I would stop and ask if they think Holly’s experiment could have caused this. The drawings really need to be looked at slowly, so I would make sure to give lots of time to let kids see. You could also read this book and Tuesday and have the kids talk and compare the two books.

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I love this book, especially since I read it to my son the day before we planted seeds. Imagine his enthusiasm anticipating the amazing growth that could occur if he paid attention to his plants! We have read this book at least twice a week! Wonderful, fun, creative illustrations help guide the

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story and give it depth.

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This book got a rating of 4 to 5 simply because I did not like the ending. It kind made the book less believable for young children. The book does have good pictures to show how big the vegetables actually became during the science fair project. I think its cool that the child in the story wanted

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to put her seedling in trays that had balloons attached to them. Who would have thought that would make vegetables grow bigger as opposed to growing in the ground? I would use this book in a kindergarten class room during story time to enrich my students imaginations about science experiment results.

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On May 11, 1999 Holy Evans launches vegetables, in a basket with a balloon attached, into the sky. She reports to her class that she is doing an experiment. On June 29th big vegetables begin falling all over the world; they are not the vegetables that Holly planted. The vegetables that fall are

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from an alien fry cook who accidentally spilled them into the atmosphere. In the end Holly Evans’ vegetables are seen on the alien ship.

This book caught my attention because of the title. I enjoyed June 29, 1999 because Holy knew without a doubt that her experiment worked but was puzzled about the vegetables that were not hers. Holly Evans had self-confidence.

I would use this book with the word self-confidence. I would choose one person in the class to go outside in the hall. I would explain to other students we are going to try and convince person in hallway that her hair is orange. I will talk to person to let her know that kids are trying to convince her that her hair is orange but she is not to waiver because she knows that her hair is not orange. When person comes in the students will have one minute to convince person that her hair is orange. After a minute I will stop the students and have them write about how they tried to convince person her hair was orange. I will have them state ways that person showed self-confidence.

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This is one of David Wiesner (3-time Caldecott Award winner)'s older stories, which contains many of his signature touches: surreal floating items in otherwise realistic settings, clever and beautiful visuals, exquisitely rendered detail, and a delightfully whimsical story. In June 29, 1999, a girl

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sends vegetable seedlings into the upper atmosphere as a science project. Soon giant vegetables fall to earth ("Cucumbers circle Kalamazoo. Lima beans loom over Levittown."), each page crazier and funnier than the last. The twist at the end is that these are not her vegetables, somehow transformed in space, but instead are the accidental kitchen scrapings of a clumsy alien cephalopod.

The real reason I love it, though, is my 6 and a half year old's reaction to it. She read it to herself as I was driving and giggled her way through the story. Her review: "I loved it! The vegetables had such great adventures!"

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A young girl experiments with growing vegetables in plots of land held up by balloons. The vegetables grow to gargantuan proportions and fall to the ground.

RESPONSE: This is such a neat book. It encourages children to be interested in science, it has amazing illustrations, and even is

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pro-vegetable. I think it'd be a fantastic book for children who don't like their veggies or science classes.

THEMES/CONCEPTS: science, creativity, surrealism, vegetables

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Don't let the title throw you this book is great. The fantastic illustrations add to the wonderful story about Holly Evans science project taking a turn for the giganitc she thinks. If you liked Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs this book is sure to be a winner.

I liked the mystery of the vegetables and how the author was creative with what the people did with them.

"June 29, 1999" by David Weisner is about a girl names HOlly that conducts a sceince experiemtn where she sends seedlings into the atmosphere tied to balloons. Large vegetables are falling from the sky. Poeple on earth use the vegetables for modern infrastructute. The illustrations are beautiful

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and inspire imagination.

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Third grader, Holly, sends her vegetables into the sky to test the effects of extraterrestrial life on the growth of veggies. On June 29, 1999, humongous vegetables fall from the sky, but when some of these vegetables are not ones Holly planted, she wonders just exactly where this food came

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from.
This is a very creatively written book, with great pictures and uses a lot of alliteration.

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