Mommy getting peas out of the freezer and pouring them into a pan - or maybe taking a bowl of peas they had shelled, or shelling a bowl of peas inside on the kitchen table. Not the fun outdoor shelling, but inside, tired, doing work for food.
Peas
Some fall out in a little frozen chunk onto the table. A little kid grabs them and goes and has a tea party with them.
Some fall on the floor while they are having a tea party
A mouse picks them up.
She feeds them to her babies (several baby mice to a pea)
One falls through a crack in the floor of the mice hole - a crack just big enough for a pea - or only big enough for the smallest pea.
A bug gets it and takes it to it's bug house in the yard. At each stage there has been an extra pea that a bug gets, but you don't notice this the first time reading it.
Maybe the last pea falls into a tiny puddle of water (maybe from a glass being tipped over at the very beggining) and a bug comes by and floats it away.
So at the bugs bug house (maybe ants?) they have 3 peas burried underground stored. They crawl all over and devour 2 of them, then are so full that they just sit and look with full stomachs at the third and last, littlest pea.
So they push it into a tunnel and bury it for stoage.
Maybe it was winter time and all the animals were gratefull for the food. Anyway, it rains, and the sun comes out, and it shows the pea swelling under the ground, and sprouting, sending down roots and up shoots and breaking through the surface of the ground.
Then it shows the bugs going to dig out their extra pea to eat. They dig into the spot where they stored it and are surprised not to find a pea, but a whole pea plant, with roots going down and shoots going up through the cieling which is probably caved in. (It all looks really big to a bug!)
So they adventurously climb out onto the surface to see what is going on, and there is a really big (to them) jack in the bean stalk type pea vine climbing up and up. And everybody that got peas before is eating peas out of the pod off of it. The children and the mice. So the bugs join them.
Peas.
(This is mostly a picture book. There are only two words in it. Peas at the beggining with the whole sack of frozen peas, and peas at the end when they are all eating peas.)
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