'It's time to tug up that gigantic turnip' says the old man who planted it, but how will he and the old lady pull up such an enormous vegetable!

* Copper/Band 12 books provide more complex plots and longer scenes that develop reading stamina.

* Text type - A play based on a traditional Russian folktale.

* Curriculum links - Science: Forces and movement: Pushes and pulls as force; Music: Animal magic - Exploring descriptive sounds; PE: Dance activities.

* This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

This book features in the following series: Collins Big Cat, Traditional Series .

. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. This reading scheme has multiple levels. This reading book uses the phonics method. This approach concentrates on teaching children how to map between sounds and spellings, allowing them to decode written words into their constituent sounds. Phonics skill thus involves being able to split the written word 'cat' into the phonemes /k/, /a/, /t/, and to map from letter 'c' to phoneme /k/, from letter 'a' to phoneme /ae/ and from letter 't' to phoneme /t/. Decoding skill is useful when reading unfamiliar words which use regular spelling sequences.

There are 24 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Lois Walker is the author of Get Growing!: Exciting Indoor Plant Projects for Kids, published by Wiley. Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years.