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32 pp.
January, 1998 |
TradeISBN 0-8037-1823-3
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LibraryISBN 0-8037-1824-1
(3)
K-3
In this humorous adaptation of the Russian folktale "The Turnip," sweet little Isabelle helps her family by singing and dancing around a carrot, which grows to be enormous. Down-home dialect and an old T-Bird give the tale a 1950s-rural-America feel. The illustrations, full of curving jubilant lines and lots of carrot orange, are appropriately wacky.