The Big Show

The Big Show takes children to a beautiful garden where a dynamic group of vegetables lives with their engaging leader, Archie Artichoke.
In this adventure, Archie and his friends want to help a nearby family of squirrels gather acorns because the squirrels have been busy caring for their sick child, and unable to collect enough acorns to get them through the winter. The veggies work together and put on a show that will collect the needed acorns. The story chronicles the vegetables' creative process as they develop the show's unique songs, dance, juggling and trained worm acts. This illustrated chapter book contains a variety of child-friendly rhymes, jokes, and songs.
Besides being fun to read, The Big Show is designed to teach children about:
Accomplishing a difficult task and solving problems;
Working with others to achieve a common goal;
Creativity and crafting something completely new;
Caring, helping others, friendship; and
The names of many important vegetables!

The book contains many beautiful illustrations to enhance its narrative.
The Big Show is the first illustrated book in the Adventures of Archie Artichoke series of stories written about a remarkable garden of vegetables.
Because the book is relatively long for a young children's story, it is formatted as a chapter book and divided into an introduction and thirteen chapters that are designed to be read over multiple days/nights. The age group for the Adventures of Archie Artichoke series is between three and nine years old. The narrative is designed to be read to a child, but third grade children will delight in reading the books on their own.

More information about the Archie Artichoke series, as well as audio of Archie's songs, can be found on ArchieArtichoke.com. Illustrations of the vegetable character s, suitable for coloring, can be downloaded from the website.

Summary - Archie and his vegetable friends have a problem to solve - to help a squirrel family caring for their sick child. The veggies write and sing rhyming songs, compose music; create dances, and practice juggling and other entertaining acts to put on a show that's fun for all.

These colorfully illustrated chapter books are donated to children's hospitals.