by Vera Southgate · Ladybird · tapa dura · ISBN 9781409311218
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«The Enormous Turnip» is the classic tale by Vera Southgate, published by Ladybird in hardcover (48 pages, in English).
In spring an old man sows rows of turnip seeds in his garden; one of the plants grows without stopping until it becomes a gigantic turnip. When the man, the old woman, a boy, a girl and a dog pull at it with all their might, they cannot yank it out.
Part of the Ladybird Tales collection, whose adaptations of classic tales are based on Vera Southgate's original versions; the edition is from 2012.
Ideal for early readers starting out with illustrated classic tales.
Vera Southgate was a British educationalist who dedicated herself to improving how children were taught to read English from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s, a period when many different methods were practised, including the initial teaching alphabet, phonics, and whole language.
