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The gigantic turnip / Aleksei Tolstoy & [illustrated by] Niamh Sharkey.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, MA : Barefoot Books, 2002.Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 1902283120 (hc.)
  • 9781902283128 (hc.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: In this traditional Russian tale, a farmer grows a turnip so big that it takes the combined efforts of him, his wife, six canaries, five geese, four hens, three cats, two pigs, one cow, and, finally, one mouse to pull it from the ground.
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Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 398.20947 T654 Available 33111004505968
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The old man and the old woman kept six yellow canaries, five white geese, four speckled hens, two pot bellied pigs and one big brown cow.

First published in the U.S.A.: Brooklyn, N.Y. : Barefoot Books, 1999.

First published: United Kingdom : Barefoot Books Ltd, 1998.

In this traditional Russian tale, a farmer grows a turnip so big that it takes the combined efforts of him, his wife, six canaries, five geese, four hens, three cats, two pigs, one cow, and, finally, one mouse to pull it from the ground.

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