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Apples for Everyone is a new picture book in the Picture the Seasons series that the whole family can enjoy. This attractive and educational companion to the best-selling titles A Tree for All Seasons and Pilgrims of Plymouth features stunning National Geographic photography and a stimulating, accessible text.
Apples! The very word conjures up images of fall: ripe red apples falling off the tree as the leaves begin their glorious extravaganza of color change; baskets of gathered fruits at the foot of laddered orchards; the rich aroma of an apple-pie cooling. As school starts again, an apple for the teacher is a time-honored tradition. Apples are coated in candy or caramel to celebrate the end-of-year holidays. They are crushed into cider to keep us warm around a fire as summer slips away and the first hint of frost chills the darkening nights. In this beautifully produced book, apples are more than just fruit, they are iconic of everything fall.
Apples for Everyone is a seasonal treasure that will help to shape a National Geographic view of the world for young readers. This delightful look at the fruit of fall is sure to inspire a rich appreciation of all things autumnal. |
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| Though they have little to do with the science behind the planet’s changing seasons, the new titles in the Picture the Seasons series do a fabulous job of conjuring up the sights, smells, and sensations of a brisk autumn. Using minimal text with National Geographic’s typically fine photographs, Esbaum brings out familiar, comforting details of the outdoors—and slips in a lesson or two so skillfully readers won’t even mind. Apples for Everyone starts small with extreme close-ups of buds and bees before wowing with wide shots of apple-strewn orchards and massive buckets of fruit. The writing flows with sensory details (“Your teeth sink in—crunch!—and tart-sweet juice dribbles down your chin”) and works in bits of history, such as the story of Johnny Appleseed. Fun, cozy, evocative stuff Grades K-2. |
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| Many times in the fall season children are off on classroom field trips to farms, pumpkin patches, and apple orchards. This book is one is a series of National Geographic books called "Picture the Seasons." This slim book gives the young student an opportunity to get a glimpse at one of our favorite fruits, the apple, and to take a tour of an orchard. Both the text and its vibrant, accompanying photographs would make an excellent reading experience prior to a field trip.
In the spring apple trees begin to blossom in "orchards and backyards." Bees are attracted to these trees and "buzz from blossom to blossom." After the petals fall from the trees, "fuzzy small bumps appear" that will eventually turn into many different varieties of apples. When the apples are mature, many fall to the ground, "then rot and become food for the growing tree." Once the apples are harvested in the fall they find their way to many places from roadside stands to grocery stores. In this book you will see how people bob for apples, munch on candied ones, see them in pies, learn how they are made into applesauce or cider, you'll learn a bit about the history of their growth in America, you'll meet Johnny Appleseed, you'll learn how you can see the "star pockets" in an apple, and will see many apple varieties.
This visual tour of one of America's favorites, the apple, will teach the young child many interesting facts about this fruit. Of course a book this short is not a treatise, but rather an introduction to the apple. Its intention is to introduce the apple to the young student, primarily in a visual mode. The text is informative, but the pictures relate a parallel story. For example, we see a youngster bobbing in a bowl for an apple and another one munching a candied one and we read, "People bob for apples at Halloween parties or dip them into melted caramel for a sweet gooey treat." This would be an excellent book to keep in the classroom to read just before that special field trip to the orchard! |
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