The Big Turnip: The traditional story of The Enormous Turnip is retold through humorous illustrations. (Collins Big Cat) - Softcover

“This book is wonderful.” – Anonymous

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.