Photographs green beans from seed to harvest.
Summary: Includes the traditional tale, a poem, a report on beans around the world, and sample activities.
Snap Bean alienates his fellow workers by being disagreeable but discovers that working together gets the job done faster.
Bean Spout learns to appreciate her small size when she and her bean friends become trapped in a cave while searching for buried treasure.
Green Bean spends all of her time and energy feeling jealous of her bean friends until Boston Bean helps her to discover her own special talents.
Jelly Bean's friends, tired of being the victims of his constant practical jokes, get back at him by pretending they have forgotten his birthday.
Mean Bean changes his nasty ways after a visit from his even nastier cousin.
Although he cannot beanpole-vault as high as String Bean or run as fast as Jumping Bean, Lima Bean finds a way to compete in the Bean-a-thon.
String Bean is distressed and feels that she is too tall to fit in anywhere, until disaster strikes and she is the only bean the right size to help.
Half-Baked Bean's tendency to rush into things without thinking causes chaos and danger on a camping trip but also saves the day in the end.
Dishonest Wax Bean convinces his friends that he knows a glamorous movie star and cannot confess his lie when she comes to town to open her new movie.