Wally and the Giant Pumpkin
Everyone is growing something for the harvest festival. Wally’s pumpkin is the biggest yet, but it won’t budge.
All summer, Wally the rabbit watered and weeded a giant cabbage. By autumn, it was enormous. ‘It will win first prize at the harvest festival!’ he thought proudly.
The festival was tomorrow. But a giant cabbage was so huge that Wally could not move it. He pushed. He pulled. He rolled. It would not budge. Wally flopped on the grass, dejected.
Basil the pony wandered past. ‘Need a hand?’ he asked. Together, they pushed. It moved a little. Then Omar the cow 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 giant cabbage rolled to the festival. Neighbours stopped to cheer them on, and soon half the farm was pushing.
At the festival, Ollie the deer looked at the entries. ‘The biggest of all!’ he announced. Wally stepped up to get the ribbon. But Wally looked at the crowd behind him. ‘It wasn’t just me,’ he said.
So Wally 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 Wally as a sticker in your Sticker Book.
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