The Cabbage Seed's Colossal Secret
Published on 17. February 2026
40 pages
978-1-6689-6128-5 (ISBN)
Description
A child plants a tiny seed and wonders what secrets it might hold.
As it grows and grows and grows, she nurtures the little plant until it isn't so little anymore?in fact, it's COLOSSAL. What does one do with a colossal cabbage? The girl dreams that the cabbage feeds a soup kitchen full of neighbors, inspiring her to grow more veggies to share with her community, inspiring kids and families all over the country to grow veggies to share with their own communities. And when she wakes up, she is ready let the world in on the cabbage's colossal secret.
Inspired by the true story of Katie Stagliano, her forty-pound cabbage, and the nonprofit Katie's Krops. Backmatter includes ways for readers to start their own sharing garden.
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Karen M. Greenwald
The Cabbage Seed's Colossal Secret
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approx. 02/2026
Tilbury House,U.S.
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Karen M. Greenwald is the author of Mud Angels and A Vote for Susanna, which was a Kansas 2022 Notable Book and represented Kansas at the Library of Congress National Book Festival and in the Great Reads from Great Places initiative. She cofounded the #SunWriteFun writing contest, which raises money for kidlit charities, and her strategic branding efforts have earned seventeen international awards, including a Platinum International Summit Marketing Effectiveness Award in 2023. Karen shares her Maryland office with a very noisy dog.
