The Great Harvest Festival with Pearl
Everyone is growing something for the harvest festival. Pearl’s pumpkin is the biggest yet, but it won’t budge.
All summer, Pearl the piglet watered and weeded a monster marrow. By autumn, it was enormous. ‘It will win first prize at the harvest festival!’ she thought proudly.
The festival was tomorrow. But a monster marrow was so huge that Pearl could not move it. She pushed. She pulled. She rolled. It would not budge. Pearl flopped on the grass, dejected.
Nora the kitten wandered past. ‘Need a hand?’ she asked. Together, they pushed. It moved a little. Then Tessa the hippo came along. ‘Let me help,’ she said in a deep voice.
The three of them heaved and hoed. They laid down logs to roll it, and slowly, slowly, a monster marrow rolled to the festival. Neighbours stopped to cheer them on, and soon half the farm was pushing.
At the festival, Nell the turtle looked at the entries. ‘The biggest of all!’ she announced. Pearl stepped up to get the ribbon. But Pearl looked at the crowd behind her. ‘It wasn’t just me,’ she said.
So Pearl 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 Pearl as a sticker in your Sticker Book.
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