Thistle Fables

By Sandi McCreadie

In a quiet garden filled with outrageous vegetable characters, a rutabaga wants more than anything to change his name. Frustrated and tired of being called “Roota-Toota-Rutabaga,” he summons the help of all the other vegetables who soon teach him a valuable lesson.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: TOPLINK PUBLISHING, LLC
• Release date: Feb 15, 2018
• ISBN: 9781948556934

Sandi McCreadie

Sandi McCreadie, founder of Thistlegarten Creative Arts Preschool and Thistle Down Express, has taught throughout California for over thirty years. She holds an MAT. and a California Teaching Credential; she also has a background in Broadway shows, television, dance, and musical groups in New York and Los Angeles. She is a published writer, composer, and speaker and currently lives in California. Visit her online at www.thistletales.com, where you can find audio recordings of Thistle Fables in CD or MP3 formats.

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Thistle Fables

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Written by Sandi McCreadie

Illustrated by David Watkins and Sandi McCreadie

Copyright © 2018 by Sandi McCreadie .

Paperback: 978-1-948556-92-7

eBook: 978-1-948556-93-4

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Table of Contents

Roota-Toota-Rutabaga

The Bear and His Honey

The King Crab and the Sea Star

The Skunk and the Grapes

You’re as Cute as the Bee’s Knees

The Snail and the Butterfly

Hippity Hop

Roota-Toota-Rutabaga

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Did you ever not like the sound of your name and wish to change it for another?

Well, once upon a fable there lived a plump rutabaga who lived among the vegetables in a quite lovely garden. The other veggies always called him Roota-Toota-Rutabaga and then laughed at the silly sound that made. Oh Roota-Toota… they would chant and the