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The Giant Turnip (Bilingual Multicultural Book) - Russian-English

The Giant Turnip - Multicultural Children's Book available in Spanish, Albanian, Farsi, German, Italian, Polish, Tamil, and many more languages. Inspiring story for diverse classrooms.
This adaptation of a humorous Russian folktale is a fun story that teaches lessons of teamwork.
 
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LANGUAGE: RUSSIAN & ENGLISH


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The Giant Turnip (Bilingual Multicultural Book) - Russian/English
Author: Henriette Barkow
Illustrator: Richard Johnson

This story tells the traditional tale of children at an inner-city school who have managed to grow an enormous turnip! They are amazed, but how will they pull it out of the ground? No matter how hard they try, the turnip just won't budge! It's left to Larry to save the day...

This is a fun multicultural story that can be used to encourage community and cooperation.

THIS TITLE IS AVAILABLE IN MANY BILINGUAL EDITIONS.

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The Giant Turnip is an adaptation of the humorous Russian folk tale, which tells of a grandfather who plants a turnip, which grows and grows, until it is gigantic. He then needs to call everyone from “grandmother” to a cat and mouse to help him pull it out of the ground. In this equally downright silly iteration, it is a teacher and her class who plant the turnip (along with other vegetables) in their class garden. Like in the original story, it takes a cooperative effort to get this mammoth turnip out of the ground.

While this folktale teaches a lesson in teamwork, the story also incorporates a great deal of vocabulary. It has all sorts of words from the lexicon of gardening, including vegetable names, and words like “planting, “frost,” and “seeds,” etc. It also manages to incorporate some fun words like “crane,” “bulldozer,” and “helicopter” as the children imagine varied ways to harvest their gigantic turnip. This use of rich language is particularly helpful in a bilingual book, where learning interesting vocabulary is part of the goal.

Award-winning illustrator Richard Johnson (who also illustrated The Three Billy Goats Gruff and Don’t Cry, Sly!) uses highly stylized images to illustrate the story. These colorful and engaging drawings depict not only beautiful vegetables (and other aspects of the storyline), but also beautiful and diverse-looking children.
- Maureen Barlow Pugh, Culture Connection Newsletter
The Giant Turnip (Bilingual Multicultural Book)
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  • Paperback book

Average Customer Review: Average Customer Review: 4.5 of 5 4.5 of 5 Total Reviews: 3 Write a review.

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3 of 5 Thinking it through June 1, 2020
Reviewer: Robin V from Newton, NJ United States  
Cute book about solving problems through trial and error and cooperation.  I especially liked the attention given to non discrimination of gender (girl driving bucket loader) and disability.  Can be used in relation to STEM.

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5 of 5 great addition to my child's library April 11, 2020
Reviewer: Alia from Sacramento, CA United States  
so special- love the translation- adorable- made me so happy to read the book- very cute!

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5 of 5 Creative December 9, 2019
Reviewer: Bonnie from Macon, GA United States  
The story is creative and the images represent children of many ethnitics and backgrounds.

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