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FOLKTALES AND NURSERY RHYMES
Alderson, Brian

The Tale of the Turnip

32 pp. | Candlewick | August, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-7636-0494-1 $$12.99
(2) PS Illustrated by Fritz Wegner. Not the cumulative Russian story but "a traditional English tale" in which a poor man grows an enormous turnip and gives it to the king, who rewards him with a wagon full of gold. An envious, wealthy neighbor then gives the king a fine horse--only to get the turnip in return. Alderson's telling is spare, witty, and engagingly informal, and Wegner's pen-and-watercolor art is charmingly detailed.
Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 1999

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