Simón the rabbit planted a lot of carrots, but someone suggested he try lettuce, someone else tomatoes, someone else eggplants… and the vegetable patch grew, and had not just vegetables but some very special gardeners: the rat, the hen, the goat, the piglet, the vixen… The 10th International Composteia Prize for illustrated books honours collaborative work, and living in contact and harmony with the natural world. The ochre and orange tones of the illustrations that match the setting of the story, and the use block printing techniques; this is a very laborious process because each and every part of the characters and tools were individually printed with its corresponding stamp.