Luca and the Giant Pumpkin
Everyone is growing something for the harvest festival. Luca’s pumpkin is the biggest yet, but it won’t budge.
All summer, Luca the lamb watered and weeded a huge sunflower. By autumn, it was enormous. ‘It will win first prize at the harvest festival!’ he thought proudly.
The festival was tomorrow. But a huge sunflower was so huge that Luca could not move it. He pushed. He pulled. He rolled. It would not budge. Luca flopped on the grass, dejected.
Poppy the puppy wandered past. ‘Need a hand?’ she asked. Together, they pushed. It moved a little. Then Dexter the giraffe came along. ‘Let me help,’ he said in a deep voice.
The three of them heaved and hoed. They laid down logs to roll it, and slowly, slowly, a huge sunflower rolled to the festival. Neighbours stopped to cheer them on, and soon half the farm was pushing.
At the festival, Opal the owl looked at the entries. ‘The biggest of all!’ she announced. Luca stepped up to get the ribbon. But Luca looked at the crowd behind him. ‘It wasn’t just me,’ he said.
So Luca shared the ribbon with every helper. They baked a great pie from the crop and fed the whole festival. It was the best harvest the farm had ever known.
The little lesson
Working together makes heavy things light.
Let’s talk about it
- What would you grow?
- How did they move the pumpkin?
Finish stories to collect Luca as a sticker in your Sticker Book.
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