The Enormous Turnip1 / 24

Grandpa plants a seed.

About this story

A free early reader story from the Peabody library. It has 24 short pages and about 93 words, so it reads in a few minutes.

What it teaches

Pulling together gets big jobs done.

Where this story comes from

People in Russia told this for a long time. Alexander Afanasyev wrote it down in 1863, about 160 years ago.

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