The Great Big Enormous Turnip

Welcome again to this lovely old story. Its charm is in its simplicity and humour when all the family try to pull up the turnip ... and eventually succeed when the mouse helps too.

Helen Oxenbury's pictures are such fun... there's the old man with his large wellies and curly beard; the granddaughter high in the patterned tree nonchalantly reading, her arm hooked round a branch; the black dog draped over the settee looking bored; the crosspatch of a cat, claws and all, keeping her eyes out for the birds then looking into the mouse's hole asking for help... definitely a delight!