"Soon, all across the neighborhood, where there had been bare patches of dirt, little green sprouts began to break through the earth." Set within the concrete streets of a busy city, de Anda's bilingual book will make all her readers wish they too had a vegetable garden to call their own. After learning of her grandmother's experiences growing vegetables, Tonia and her grandmother use a small patch of earth behind the church to begin their first vegetable garden together. The beauty and the delicacy of the garden inspire many children and their families to find their own small pieces of land to fill the city with pedacitos de huerto, or a patchwork garden. Vegetables start springing up in front of the family clinic and in front of stores. Kemarskaya's full-page illustrations are vibrant and capture the close bond between Tonia and her abuela. Like A Day without Sugar / Un día sin azucar (2012), de Anda's new book weaves in a message about health and well-being without distracting the reader from Tonia's story.