The Big Turnip: Band 00/Lilac

An old man tugs on a giant turnip, but cannot move it at all. With help from the old lady, the boy and girl, and a whole host of other characters, will he able to pull it out of the ground? The structure of this wordless text shows how a story is built up through a series of events. Lilac/Band 0 – wordless book that tells a story through pictures and is designed to develop understanding about how stories work. Text type – Fiction, a wordless traditional story. A storyboard on pages 14 and 15 shows the sequence of events in six numbered stages. This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.