Greedy Hare doesn't want to share the farmer's cabbages with Mug's the tortoise so challenges her to a race - the first to reach the field from Hare's home can have all the cabbages he/she wants. The race begins and Mug's friends try to help by suggesting quicker ways of moving, but they all end in trouble. Mug's is so busy rescuing Rabbit from a ditch and Squirrel from a bush that she has no chance of winning the race. But her opportunity comes as she sees Hare having a nap. Just as she's about to creep past him and win, Rabbit and Squirrel spoil everything again by waking Hare up so that he goes on to win the race. Mug's has a surprise in store when she suggests Hare races her home - and of course, Mug's home is right there on her back!

 

This book is part of a book series called Viking Kestrel Picture .

There are 32 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2001 by Penguin Books Ltd .

Tim Warnes is the illustrator of the phenomenally best-selling LITTLE TIGER picture book series. Julie Sykes has had over twenty books published and she won the Nottinghamshire Children's Book Award in 1996 and 1997.