a fifo wife {a fifo life: kids reads: The Big Beet~ Lynn Ward}

I discovered The Big Beet by Lynn Ward last week when I took the boys to the Port Melbourne Libaray..and oh my the selection of childrens books on offer we could have been there all day but given that we had a check list to complete we were not but I picked up this book and we must have read it four times.

Thelma Magee fancies a burger for tea, so her husband Bert heads out to the veggie patch to pick a juicy beetroot. But no matter how hard he pulls, that beet won’t budge. He might need a hand… A fresh Aussie take on a traditional folk tale.

It reads well, rythmes well and its illustrations are good and intresting and it teaches the kids value of team work. You could segement it off on to so many other things like concept words, rythming, where food comes from right through to diversifcation from dazza’s tattoo’s to the pink tutu.

You can buy it here  and here or head to your local library and ask them to get it in for you Im sure they wont mind as its a great Aussie read..

xx Deb