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In a rollicking,
cumulative tale, a badger family and their friends–Hedgie, Mr. Ram
and Vanya, the horse–struggle to pull up a giant turnip. A cocky
rooster steps in and pulls, sending him into the air, holding onto
the turnip. No one knows that a mother bear in her underground den
has kicked the turnip up through the soil to give the family room to
sleep through the winter.
Once again Jan Brett brings an original twist to a
favorite folktale. Snow covers the farm in rural Russia as badgers
and friends in old-fashioned clothes, and bears marching through
bright-colored borders, send young readers laughing from page to
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