When the farmer goes to pull the largest turnip out of the ground, he gets an enormous surprise! A classic with lots of repetition to support new readers.
This book is part of a book series called Leapfrog Fairy Tales .
There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 by Hachette Children's Group .
Mark Chambers is an illustrator and author of children's books. He has been shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, and is the winner of the Sheffield Children's Picture Book Prize. Anne Walter is a freelance children`s book writer with a passion for fairy tale and fantasy stories. she has retold many famous fairy tales for reluctant readers, including a set of Hopscotch Fairy Tales. Robert James has written and edited many books for children, but still loves the traditional stories best. Robert lives in Gloucestershire with his wife and very excitable labrador.
This book contains the following story:
The Enormous Turnip
One day a man planted turnips in his garden. He waited and waited as they grew and grew. Then the day came when the turnips were big enough to eat so the man went outside to his garden and pulled and pulled. But the turnip would not come up out of the ground. So he called his wife and together they pulled and pulled but the turnip would not come out of the ground. So they called for help from their neighbours and animals, who pulled and pulled until pop the turnip came out of the ground and they all fell back on their bottoms with a bump! Then the man cooked the turnip for tea and shared it with all who had helped liberate it from the ground.
This book is in the following series:
Leapfrog Fairy Tales
The Leapfrog Fairy Tales series features some of our best-loved fairy tales, simply retold in under 180 words, with bright illustrations for children to read on their own.
