The Turnip
The Turnip

The Turnip

Written and illustrated by Jan Brett
Hardcover
$17.99
$16.97
3 - 5
Reading age
32
Page count
13
Words per page
AD610L
Lexile measure
Jan 1, 2015
Publication date

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In a rollicking, cumulative tale, a badger family and their friends–Hedgie, Mr. Ram and Vanya, the horse–struggle to pull up a giant turnip. A cocky rooster steps in and pulls, sending him into the air, holding onto the turnip. No one knows that a mother bear in her underground den has kicked the turnip up through the soil to give the family room to sleep through the winter. Once again Jan Brett brings an original twist to a favorite folktale. Snow covers the farm in rural Russia as badgers and friends in old-fashioned clothes, and bears marching through bright-colored borders, send young readers laughing from page to page.

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      Author & Illustrator
      Jan Brett

      With over thirty four million books in print, Jan Brett is one of the nation’s foremost author illustrators of children’s books. Jan lives in a seacoast town in Massachusetts, close to where she grew up. During the summer her family moves to a home in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts.As a child, Jan Brett decided to be an illustrator and spent many hours reading and drawing. She says, “I remember the special quiet of rainy days when I felt that I could enter the pages of my beautiful picture books. Now I try to recreate that feeling of believing that the imaginary place I’m drawing really exists. The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope others as well, that such places might be real.”

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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9780399170706
    Publication Date
    January 1, 2015
    Publisher
    G.P. Putnam's Sons Books For Young Readers
    Original Publication Date
    November 3, 2015
    Page Count
    32
    Words Per Page
    13
    Audience
    Picture
    Reading Age
    3 - 5 years
    Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
    2015000708
    Lexile® Level
    AD610L
    Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
    ~O
    ATOS® Book Level
    2.9
    Accelerated Reader® Points
    0.5
    Accelerated Reader Quiz
    178680
    Accelerated Reader Interest Level
    LG

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