There's No Such Thing as a Vegetable

A book I checked out at our local library for my daughter. "There's No Such Thing as Vegetables" by Kyle Lukoff. It explains the concept that words are just a series of sounds we make and are not actually "real." It even gives the "lemon lemon lemon" example! Very ACT/RFT. 

Summary from publisher's website: Chester plans to have a salad for lunch, but in order to do that, he'll need vegetables. So, off he goes to the community garden, except he quickly learns that he won't be dressing a salad anytime soon. Instead, the vegetables start dressing him down. According to them, "vegetables" don't exist!

I know what you are thinking: What the bell pepper? Vegetables are totally real! But here's the thing: Kale is just a leaf, broccoli is a flower, potatoes are roots, and celery...well, stalks. Thanks to a lively, sassy cast of talking "veggies," Chester learns a valuable lesson about categories and how they shape our understanding of the world.

Hexaflex processes addressed: 

Fusion - recognizing words as just words, no more powerful than the meaning we assign them. 

Committed Action - are Chester's categorization and use of verbal rules getting in the way of him eating lunch?