Collins Big Cat - 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.

Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book banded for guided and independent reading, there are reading notes in the back, comprehensive teaching and assessment support and ebooks available.

Collins Big Cat is a whole-school reading programme that provides complete support for primary reading. Children will become fluent readers through hundreds of high-quality fiction and non-fiction banded books by award-winning authors and illustrators. In-depth teaching resources support you in developing and assessing key reading skills at all stages from early reading through to phonics, to guided, whole-class and independent reading for more confident readers.