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The Big Turnip

Band 00/Lilac

Monica Hughes author Lisa Williams illustrator Cliff Moon editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers

Published:4th Jan '06

Should be back in stock very soon

The Big Turnip cover

The traditional story of The Enormous Turnip is retold through humorous illustrations.

An old man tugs on a giant turnip, but cannot move it at all. With help from the old lady, the boy and girl, and a whole host of other characters, will he able to pull it out of the ground?
The structure of this wordless text shows how a story is built up through a series of events.

An old man tugs on a giant turnip, but cannot move it at all. With help from the old lady, the boy and girl, and a whole host of other characters, will he able to pull it out of the ground?
The structure of this wordless text shows how a story is built up through a series of events.

  • Lilac/Band 0 – wordless book that tells a story through pictures and is designed to develop understanding about how stories work.
  • Text type – Fiction, a wordless traditional story.
  • A storyboard on pages 14 and 15 shows the sequence of events in six numbered stages.
  • This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.
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“This book is wonderful.” – Anonymous

ISBN: 9780007186440

Dimensions: 210mm x 199mm x 1mm

Weight: 70g

16 pages