We order many books from Barefoot Books. They happen to be some of my favorite children's books and my daughter has a particular fondness for them. I think in part because of the great stories and beautiful and colorful illustrations. We bought The Gigantic Turnip about a year ago and we still read it on a weekly, sometimes daily, basis. It is based on an old folk tale from nineteenth-century Russia.
An older couple plants vegetable seeds and by the end of summer the garden is full of all different types of vegetables, including one gigantic turnip. It's too hard to pull out so he asks his wife to help. It still won't move, so they ask the cow for help, the pigs for help, the cats for help, the hens for help, the geese for help and the yellow canaries for help but the turnip still will not move. This is the set up for the ending which I will not spoil here.
There is great cadence and repitition in this book which is one of the reasons why it is so catchy for children. The recommended age is 5-8 years but I think that is more the age for children to actually be able to read it alone. We have been reading it to our daughter since she was two and she was interested in it immediately.
Overall, it is a cute book and the pictures are pretty amazing as well. It comes with a read along CD, which we still have never used but I know many kids who like to have the book read to them by someone other than mom or dad, so that is a nice bonus.
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