The Great Big Enormous Turnip

Reader 1:
This folk tale is about cooperation.
An old man planted a turnip seed.

Reader 2:
The turnip grew big and sweet.
It grew very big! The turnip was enormous!

Reader 3:
The old man thought he just had to pull on the leaves to get it out. He tried to pick his turnip but it didn't come up.

Reader 4:
He quickly called his wife.
The old woman was in the living room with her cat, dog, and bird.

Reader 5:
The old man pulled the turnip leaves and the old woman pulled him. But they couldn't pull it up.

Reader 6:
The old woman called her granddaughter.
The granddaughter was reading in a tree.

Reader 7:
The old man, the old woman, and the granddaughter tried but could not pull the turnip up.

Reader 8:
The granddaughter called the black dog.
The dog was on the couch.

Reader 9:
The old man, his wife, granddaughter, and the dog could not pull the turnip out.

Reader 10:
The dog called the cat in the flower garden.
Everyone pulled and the cat held on to the dog's tail.
The turnip did not move.

Reader 11:
The cat called the mouse.
The mouse was in his mouse hole.
It had a little doorway.

Reader 12: They all worked together and the turnip popped out -ZABOOM!
They all fell splat!

Reader 13:
They were so eXcited! Then they went to the kitchen with the turnip and ate it up.

Reader 14:
We think you will like this story too.
Another book like this is The Big Pumpkin by Erica Silverman.

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