Louise is given all sorts of reasons for eating her peas. Includes suggested learning activities.

"This little pea is hungry! So hungry it swallows a sprout, slurps up some soup, munches the bread, gobbles the cake, noshes the pickle, guzzles the cheese, drinks all the tea, and even chomps down the table it's all served on. After all that, it needs to sleep. But whose dinner did it steal? And whose mattress is the now-humongous pea resting under?"--

Busy little peas introduce more of their favorite occupations and activities, from actor to zipper on a zip line.

Parents will relate to this amusing twist on the age-old "eat your vegetables!" refrain. Amy Krouse Rosenthal brought her knack for making parenting issues funny to a children's book, in the story of a pea who doesn't want to eat his dinner.