If you liked David Wiesner's surrealistic 1992 Caldecott Medalist Tuesday, then June 29, 1999 will send your spirits soaring like a frog on a flying lily pad. This wacky Wiesner creation chronicles an astonishing cross-country phenomenon on June 29, 1999. About a month earlier, on May 11, 1999, young Holly Evans launches vegetable seedlings into the sky from her home in Ho-ho-kus, New Jersey--on seed flats with Acme weather balloons. She expects the plants to stay aloft for a few weeks, allowing her to study the effects of extraterrestrial conditions on their growth and development. On June 29, 1999, curious things start to happen all over America. A hiker in Montana finds giant turnips in the Rocky Mountains. "Cucumbers circle Kalamazoo. Lima beans loom over Levittown. Artichokes advance on Anchorage." TV news channels announce that arugula has covered Ashtabula, which puzzles Holly, because arugula is not part of her experiment. In fact, she is forced to conclude that none of the enlarged specimen sightings are a result of her initial seedling launch. Where did the giant vegetables come from then? Wiesner waits until the last pages to deliver the punch line. Throughout the book, his visual humor interplays perfectly with the sophisticated though minimal text. (A Mount Rushmore-like scene reveals the faces of Reagan, Bush, Nixon, and Carter carved out of giant potatoes with the caption "Potatoland is wisely abandoned.") This beautifully composed ode to absurdity makes us all wish we really could see parsnips over Providence. Awards and other recognition: 1993 ALA Notable Book, School Library Journal Best Books of 1992, Fanfare 1993: Horn Book's Outstanding Books of the Year, Publishers Weekly 50 Best Books of 1992, New York Times Notable Books of the Year 1992. Ages 4-8.
看书名，这本书如同一则新闻，事实上，这真是一件轰动美国，震惊全民的新闻事件！
故事的源起，是学生霍利?埃文斯进行了一项大胆而有创意的实验，她在5月11日，将各种蔬菜的秧苗，发射升空，她的实验构想是研究地球以外的环境对蔬菜的生长和发育的影响。
到了6月29日，美国各地怪事频发，这个国家的上空布满了蔬菜：
巨大的圆白菜，黄瓜，皇帝豆，朝鲜蓟，欧洲萝卜，西蓝花，大白菜，豆角，红椒全部落地。
电视新闻连续二十四小时滚动报道“空降蔬菜事件”，霍利有点儿蒙了，大头萝卜，芝麻菜，大茄子，牛油果……太多的蔬菜名单加入，名单越来越长，霍利终于明白，这些巨型蔬菜根本不是她的实验成果，她有一点点失望，可更多的是好奇，她问自己：“这些蔬菜都来自哪里？我的菜苗又到哪里去了呢？”
By David Wiesner, Hardcover, Simplified Chinese characters, 31 pages, 9.25"x10.75"
