The third Little Yellow Digger story; when the tide turns, the baby whale gets stranded on the beach in the hot sun and starts to get too hot and dry. But the digger comes along and digs a trench to get water to the whale, and float him out to sea. Told in rhyming verse with full page colour drawings. Based on a real-life incident.

The little digger working in the garden next door gets stuck in the mud so the workmen bring in a bigger digger, but it too gets stuck in the mud, so they bring in a bigger, bigger digger. The original story was drawn after a real event witnessed by Betty and Alans grandchildren. The idea stayed with Betty and The Little Yellow Digger was eventually born. Since then, the Little Yellow Digger has been on many adventures; this bright and attractively designed bag contains them all!

With a clank, clankety clank the Little Digger started work again. The oblong hole got bigger and bigger.

When little yellow digger gets stuck in the mud, a range of bigger diggers are sent to finish the job.

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